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Punishment is justice for the unjust. -- Saint Augustine
An unjust peace is better than a just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. -- Saint Augustine
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. -- Edmund Burke
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -- Maximilien Robespierre
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- George Washington
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. -- Hosea Ballou
Effective action is always unjust. -- Maya Angelou
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. -- Sophocles
A unjust law, is no law at all. -- Martin Luther
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths. -- Aeschylus
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. -- Thomas Carlyle
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust! -- Henry Clay
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. -- Henry George
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. -- Louisa May Alcott
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. -- Seneca the Younger
Unjust laws aren't laws at all. -- Saint Augustine
Unjust rule does not last forever. -- Seneca the Younger
Unjust force can never give any just dominion. -- John Arbuthnot
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them? -- Henry David Thoreau
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. -- Jane Austen
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. -- Emily Saliers
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. -- Ayn Rand
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. -- Dale Carnegie
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? -- Henry David Thoreau
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. -- Lillian Hellman
We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. -- Mo Ibrahim
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun. -- Philip Roth
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. -- Thomas A. Edison
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. -- Heraclitus
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. -- Charles Spurgeon
When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. -- Kristen Bell
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. -- Cory Booker
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
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended. -- Thomas Sankara
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. -- Michael Specter
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. -- Jesus Christ
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People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
The gods hate unjust men. -- Gnaeus Naevius
All government wars are unjust. -- Murray Rothbard
An unjust punishment is never forgotten. -- Penelope Fitzgerald
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust. -- Mason Cooley
Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing. -- Zane Grey
Justice in the extreme is often unjust. -- Jean Racine
A God all mercy is a God unjust. -- Edward Young
Every unjust man is unjust against his will. -- Plato
There is no justice in following unjust laws. -- Aaron Swartz
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust. -- Saint Augustine
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. -- James Madison
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. -- Thomas C. Foster
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. -- Emanuel Celler
There are unjust laws as there are unjust men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust? -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. -- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. -- William Hazlitt
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment. -- Dale Carnegie
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. -- Mao Zedong
Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust. -- Pascal Lamy
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause. -- Jose Narosky
An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. -- Robert Dale Owen
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. -- Robert A. Heinlein
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. -- Sophocles
Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust. -- George Washington
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust. -- W. H. Auden
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. -- Oscar Wilde
Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's. -- Jacob Frank
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. -- Saint Francis de Sales
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom? -- Terence
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man. -- Sophocles
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! -- Edward Young
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust. -- Lord Acton
those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... -- Eliza Haywood
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws. -- Bryant McGill
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's. -- Hanoi Hannah
A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust. -- R. C. Sproul
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. -- Confucius
If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. -- Anne Frank
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. -- H. L. Mencken
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. -- Lew Wallace
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child. -- Eglantyne Jebb
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. -- John Milton
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. -- Jean Racine
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. -- William Penn
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust. -- Ben Jonson
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. -- Oscar Wilde
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. -- Thomas Jefferson
Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars. -- Idries Shah
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. -- Alexander Pope
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust. -- Thomas Aquinas
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it. -- Bernadette Devlin
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? -- Thomas Sowell
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. -- John Dryden
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. -- Alan Greenspan
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. -- Victor Hugo
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident. -- Nawal El Saadawi
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it. -- Maurice Druon
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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