Unjust Quotes

“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
― Max Stirner

“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? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“How can you expect humans to be fair, if life itself is unfair!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Stand up for what is right against the wrong.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs

“The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Stand up for what is just against the unjust.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I am in the native land of hypocrite sir! These men and women of principles; I loathe them. I can scorn at a man disdainfully and forget him. Man is filth, sir! he is dutibound to be filthy. While I believe women are chaste, these principles they confine themselves to make them indelicate and hateful. A beautiful woman sir! Stupefying beauty should not be sole possession of one rodent. God created beauty or maybe he did not, but in it's most primitive state, it belonged to everyman before these principles; these God forsaken principles plagued us. Do you believe in God sir? Oh you do! I can tell that by your expression. Sir! God is not of principles, if he were, world would be just. And I belive, no; actually i know God isn't of principles because He will punish me for years for just one glass; this one glass of wine, you bought me, whereas I deserve far lesser punishment. It is empty sir! I can see the bottom of the glass and depth of my wretchedness in this glass. Perhaps another time sir! I am drunk now, and I don't want to squander this temporal leave.”
― Teufel Damon

“Self-justification is unjust.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Don't hate me. Hate the people who toy with lives like it's a game. Hate how unjust life is for those who were born different. Hate this world that forced me to live this life. Don't hate me, the product of this cruel and twisted equation.”
― Natsuri Ayuko (Aicka), Black Equation: The Forgotten Ones

“It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“We are all wrong by choosing to raise concerns, problems or matters when they only directly affect us.
If not, then we don’t care. We are not bothered by wrong things.
We are not bothered by unjust, unfairness, lawlessness, war, racism, nepotism, tribalism classism crime .”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Which is more just? A law for humanity or a law for a country? Any law that flies in the face of humanity is unjust. Slavery was an unjust law and it was a law against humanity.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Unjust, whether policies, actions or conduct, poison the peace and cause the way of terror and violence.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“["...]I have learned what all who live in a land of slaver[y] must learn sooner or later; that is to process approbation where you cannot feel it; to be hard when most inclined to melt; and to say that all is right, and good; and true when you know that nothing could be more wrong and unjust.["]”
― Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman's Narrative

“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. I can found morality on theology only when I myself have already defined the Divine Being by means of morality. In the contrary case, I have no criterion of the moral and immoral, but merely an unmoral, arbitrary basis, from which I may deduce anything I please. Thus, if I would found morality on God, I must first of all place it in God: for Morality, Right, in short, all substantial relations, have their only basis in themselves, can only have a real foundation—such as truth demands—when they are thus based. (…) Where man is in earnest about ethics, they have in themselves the validity of a divine power. If morality has no foundation in itself, there is no inherent necessity for morality; morality is then surrendered to the groundless arbitrariness of religion.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity

“I’ve gotten the short end of so many sticks that I could start a bonfire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If their rules made sense
and sense ruled—
If their laws weren’t so brok- en
I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“în dumneata vorbeşte numai adevărul
crud, prin urmare eşti nedrept”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“I feel your all feelings
I am your trust
Trust me
Don't unjust”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“This man figures I’m some sort of grifter. He can’t seem to get it straight in his head, though.

Am I passing off another man’s child as Kellum’s? Or am I trying to shake his people down through a custody battle? And then there’s the ten thousand dollars, which seems to say they don’t care which it is, they just want the garbage to take itself out.

The knot in my stomach sits there, gross and heavy as lead, while my breakfast churns. Eggs on a hot day. I knew it was a bad idea.

I bet this comes down to the fact I belong to the help. I’m not a decent person like them.

That’s how they all see me, isn’t it? I’m trash. Cheap slut. Liar, conniver, whatever. But above all, cheap.
That’s how they see me, and that’s how they’ll see Mia.

My heart sinks, but my brain keeps plugging along, impervious.

Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money for cheap.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“There was a time I assumed other people knew better than me.

They don’t.

And we might be poor, but we’re not cheap, and we’re not trash. And I’m sure as hell not stupid.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“Stonecut’s great. If they let you in. If they don’t run you out.

And he really believes his family is as upstanding as he is. Never mind the bribe to leave town. Never mind running me out when I was expecting. Those were misunderstandings. Honest mistakes. Not the predictable machinations of folks who think they’re better than you and will lie, cheat, or steal to stay on top.”
― Cate C. Wells, Hitting the Wall

“Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror,
Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place.

But the girl at that school, so haunted,
smashed all the reflections
boarded up the windows and
bolted the doors,
forever stuck at 15 years old
judged to serve a life sentence for what they did.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“A paradox! By going astray, one reaches the goal the fastest.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Trying to create communication is almost always the uphill struggle of the falsely blamed.”
― Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

“For bearness of injustice may display greatness, but not protesting against injustice is also unjust.”
― Ehsan Sehgal