(60 quotes found)
“Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated”
Abraham Lincoln
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom”
Ayn Rand
“In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving”
William Arthur Ward
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them”
Henry David Thoreau
“You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.”
James Q. Wilson
“Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.”
Seneca
“When a judge is unjust he is no longer a judge but a transgressor”
Giosue Borsi
“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
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
Oscar Wilde