Unjust Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• [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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• Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Giving, Choices

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #4: Gregor and the Marks of Secret”, p.185, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

  Brent Weeks

  Reality, Wish, Complaining

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Sibling

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• Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're not together, which is not only unjust, but when you think about it, tragical!

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Together, Want

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.253, Penguin

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• It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Compassion, Justice

  Eric Hoffer, "The Passionate Sate of Mind and Other Aphorisms" (1955), section 140

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• The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

  John Rawls

  Facts, Way, Natural

  "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

  Paulo Freire

  Destiny, Order, Historical

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
  shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

  Thomas Szasz

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Rewards

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• The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

  Gerry Spence

  Unjust Society, People, Appreciate

  Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown

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• Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

  John Rawls

  Law, Justice, Matter

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

  John Calvin

  Guilt, Heretic

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• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Rights, Offending, Law

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Educational, Practice, Role Models

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• No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side

  Bob Riley

  War, Men, Two

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• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

  Peter Thiel

  Agency, Over You, Important

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.64, Crown Business

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• American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

  Hanoi Hannah

  War, Fighting, Gis

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• a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Clever, Enough, Persons

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Iron, Dust

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Rain, Fall, Suspicion

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

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• the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

  Jessica Mitford

  Expression, Injustice, Prison

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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