Unjust Quotes - Page 2

• All government wars are unjust.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Government

  As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Arrogance, Opinion, Judgment

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.366, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!

  John Brown

  Country, Children, Believe

  Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, War, Defense

  "On the Republic. On the Laws".

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

  53 Copy quote

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Voice, Trying

  14 Copy quote

• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

  Leonardo Boff

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Law, Break

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Justice, Craving

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.107, Bible Study Steps

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Responsibility, Law, Moral

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Rain

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.732, Diversion Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, War, Philosophical

  74 Copy quote

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

  Philip Roth

  Fun, Anger, People

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A unjust law, is no law at all.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Justice, Unjust Laws

  8 Copy quote

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Punishment, Justice

  20 Copy quote

• A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Being Strong, Integrity, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Selfish, Men, Apes

  "The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

  Hosea Ballou

  Friendship, Happiness, Enemy

  19 Copy quote

• I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Winning, Literature

  7 Copy quote

• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

  Kristen Bell

  Suffering, Underdog, Watches

  37 Copy quote

• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Women, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2004). “Little Women”, p.212, Collector's Library

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, God, Death

  826 Copy quote