Quotes About Just

Distinction doesn't consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those whose are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report

T]he value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

Righteous Person, this title being a peculiarly Israeli honor based on an ancient tribal assumption that in the mass of Gentiles, the God of Israel would always provide a leavening of just men.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

just to show he can. He just likes being contrary, and likes the attention.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Everything short of an explanation of the world as a whole is frustratingly partial. An explanation of the world must include an answer to why the world as a whole is just that way. And the only truly satisfying answer would be: because it's the best of all possible ones.

Just her bones, darling. Just her pearly white bones.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire

just heard a commercial which told me Farmer John smokes his own bacon. now, there's one tough son of a bitch.

Taking the life of a nation is a serious task, V says. Few succeed, even if the cause is just. We didn't, and ours wasn't. But sometimes I can't help missing those days when we all just took care of each other.

It is those possessed by sublime madness who keep alive another way of being. W. H. Auden captured the solitude and even futility of such a life at the end of his poem "September 1, 1939." Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.32 ———

People are all evil. In order to falsely believe yourself to be just You must inevitably falsely believe That someone else is more evil than you.

praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.a He is able to humbleb those who walk in pride.c

just realize you are a unique type of expert, because there's always new opportunities you can take on.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

The spirits of just men made perfect.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

victims? What happened to 'It's just you and me, we're all they've got'?" I said, "It got pointless, kid. That's what happened. Scorcher Kennedy's right: he's got a beauty of a case. If I were the DPP, I'd give