Unjust Quotes - Page 8

• How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Littles, Chill

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• Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Order, Civilization

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• I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Passionate, Violence

  "My Credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  George Washington

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

  Zane Grey

  Stifling

  "The Call of the Canyon".

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• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Block

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Integrity, Fighting, Equality

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

  Murray Rothbard

  War, Government, Claims

  Interview in Reason magazine, February 1973.

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• We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Born, Grows, Prepared

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• Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Powerful, Fall, Order

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.317, Broadway Books

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• If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

  Umar

  Praying, Praise, Rulers

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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, Grieving

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

  George MacDonald

  Friday, Jesus, Son

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• You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Ideas

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Fall, Law

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• The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

  Gerry Spence

  Religious, Godly, Men

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

  John Ruskin

  Money, War, Evil

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

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• The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Rain, Sunshine, Sheep

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• People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

  E. B. White

  Motivational, Silly, People

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.131, Cornell University Press

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• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

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• Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

  Plato

  Wise, Justice, Brave

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hands, Victory, Vaunt

  Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214

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