Unjust Quotes - Page 8

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.