Best Unjust Words
378 Unjust quotes by 285 unique authors
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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
— Lewis H. Lapham
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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
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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,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is…
— Aristotle
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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…
— Aristotle
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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…
— Plato
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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…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
— Jean Racine
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Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
— Edmund Spenser
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The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our…
— Aaron Swartz
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Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
— Martin Luther
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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…
— Gerry Spence
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You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will…
— St. Vincent
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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…
— John Rawls
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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…
— Tom Robbins
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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
— Ayn Rand
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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
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
— Thomas Sowell
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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…
— Harlan F. Stone
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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,…
— Brennan Manning
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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
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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…
— Bob Riley
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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…
— Peter Thiel
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