Unjust Quotes - Page 17

• There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Law, Justice

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• To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

  Starhawk

  Integrity, Beer, Unjust Society

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Humble, Unjust Criticism, Understanding

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• A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Husband, Children

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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• The gods hate unjust men.

  Gnaeus Naevius

  Hate, Men, Politics

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• Unjust rule does not last forever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Forever, Politics, Lasts

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• For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Wisdom, Justice, Majority

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• Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Men, Law, Atheism

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• There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Real, Lying, Men

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• I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

  James Madison

  Shackles, Commerce

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

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• To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

  Plautus

  Simple, Hands, Injustice

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

  Ouida

  Men, Blood, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.100, Ouida

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• For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Riches, Heirs

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

  Simon Critchley

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.

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• An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Punishment, Forgotten

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

  Susan Sontag

  Illness, Metaphor, Used

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.56, Penguin UK

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• Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Responsibility, Law, Judging

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Yale, Use

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• [Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.71, Regnery Publishing

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• You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

  Alan Greenspan

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Men

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• If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Pay The Price, Practice, People

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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