#unjust

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#deeper #ends #evil #fearful #good

An unjust peace is better than a just war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#better #just #peace #than #unjust

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#truth #unjust-criticism #courage

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

#government #humane #law #rights #society

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. ↗

— Albert Camus

#change #good #great #i #just

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#accident #dead #fear #fears #most

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#good #men #more #praise #public

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#being #eligible #opponents #out #unjustly