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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
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.
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.
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.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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.
You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.
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.
Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change.
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
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.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior
It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.