Unjust Quotes - Page 16

• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

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• God accepts the risk of appearing to be unjust. God looks unjust, but he is not. He asks more from those to whom he gives more. They are not greater or better, they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.

  Hélder Câmara

  Peace, Responsibility, Giving

  "Dom Helder Camara: essential writings".

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• The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Character, Religion

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Reality, Ego

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• Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

  Matthew Scully

  Sometimes, Tradition, Excuse

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.314, Souvenir Press

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• To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Rebel, Free Will

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.52, Bantam

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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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• Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.

  Seraphim Rose

  Spiritual, Real, Hatred

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• Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Justice, Acting

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.184, Macmillan

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• Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Brave, Life Is

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kindness, Order, Justice

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

  Confucius

  Unjust Society, Justice, Honor

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• If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Atheist, Judging

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.45, Penguin

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• Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Endeavor, Civil Disobedience

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.79, Penguin

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• We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, May, Civil Rights

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

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• Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

  Jacob Frank

  Evil, Wickedness, Reactions

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• I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

  Charles XII of Sweden

  War, Historical, Enemy

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Badass, Bad Ass, Important

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

  Terence

  Justice, Customs

  Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182

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• A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, Gang

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.483

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• Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Giving Up, Fear

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• Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

  John Updike

  Dream, Regret, Moving

  John Updike (2012). “Golf Dreams”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

  William Hazlitt

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Capricious

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Lows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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