Unjust

Famous quotes containing the word unjust:

“Well, begone, begone, I say,
Lest that Argus’ eyes perceive you.’
Oh, unjust Fortunes sway,
Which can make me thus to leave you,
And from louts to run away.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

“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 Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)