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The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. -- John Rawls
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom? -- Terence
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. -- Victor Hugo
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. -- Mao Zedong
He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty. -- Roy L. Pickering Jr.
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. -- Gorgias
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
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child. -- Eglantyne Jebb
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. -- Heraclitus
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust. -- Tim Robbins
If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him. -- Umar
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato
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
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
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. -- Rufus Jones
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side. -- Bob Riley
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. -- Frances Wright
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being. -- Dennis Prager
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
Unjust force can never give any just dominion. -- John Arbuthnot
An unjust peace is better than a just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. -- Thomas C. Foster
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. -- Mao Zedong
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust. -- R. C. Sproul
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust. -- Lord Acton
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? -- Thomas Sowell
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it. -- Maurice Druon
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. -- Henry George
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not. -- Matthew Fox
I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do. -- Malorie Blackman
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California. -- Alan Moore
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[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor. -- Charles Spurgeon
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. -- Ouida
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. -- Euripides
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. -- Charles Spurgeon
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all. -- Gautama Buddha
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. -- Ambrose Bierce
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas -- Cormac McCarthy
Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save. -- John Milton
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
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly. -- Plautus
I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war. -- Mike Hoffman
Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust. -- Anna Brownell Jameson

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