Best Unjust Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.”

Thinking War Speak Terror Borders Regions Unjust War On Terror Hegemony Parliamentary Power Politics Unjust War American Hegemony

Author:Fatima Bhutto

“The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.”

“There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.”

Moments Helping Realizing Innocent Guilty Hated Misfortunes Thieves Unjust Unbearable Reproach Impunity Robbing

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.”

Slavery Superiors Inferiors Unjust Objections

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Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.”

May Concern Rewards Convinced Tyranny Tendencies Attachment Being Real Improving Unjust Disobedience Interference Parental Felicity Filial

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.”

Should Humans Made Strong Justice Human Nature Ethics Privilege Conviction Servant Progressive Conception Unjust Conservatism Realist

Book:Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence

Source: Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence

“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.”

People Should Country Whole Law Justice Attitude Practice Mankind Cry Duty Training Tradition Dignity Bases Regard Injustice Profession Discrimination Honorable Unjust Justice For All

Author:Nelson Mandela

“While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.”

Men Political Black White Rights Ignorant Denial Irrational Unjust White Man Vicious Suffrage Secured Conceded Political Rights

Author:Horace Greeley

“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.”

World Real Done Age Fall Wish Black Morality Late Red Rain Clouds Nuclear Too Late Ashes Unjust Mushrooms Real Work

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.”

Way Reason No Reason Unjust

Author:Victor Hugo

“As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.”

Long Government Consent Unjust

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Mean Problem Might Would Be Able Faces Political Sides Justice Practice Blood Ethics Raises Injustice Disappointment Realization Unjust Champagne

Author:Simon Critchley

“The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.”

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Author:James Nachtwey

“All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.”

War Revolutionary Unjust Revolutionary War

Book:Mao Tse-tung on War

Source: Mao Tse-tung on War

“It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.”

Men Particular Unjust

Author:Wendy McElroy

“Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.”

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!”