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Unjust Quotes

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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas

Authors on Unjust Quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr. Jane Austen John Rawls Saint Augustine James Madison Mahatma Gandhi John Milton Oscar Wilde Edmund Burke Aristotle Seneca the Younger Charles Spurgeon Jean Racine Edward Young Henry David Thoreau Thomas Aquinas Abraham Lincoln Albert Camus Sophocles William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Matthew Fox Aleksandar Hemon Susan Sontag Jessica Mitford Bartolome de las Casas Reinhold Niebuhr James Joyce Plautus Lysander Spooner Larry Charles John Calvin Cormac McCarthy Robert Greene
2.
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas

If you can coexist with unfairness without ire, you are unethical as well as inequitable.
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What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolome de las Casas

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Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
Amartya Sen

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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

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Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.
Pascal Lamy

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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
Eglantyne Jebb

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American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
Hanoi Hannah

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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
Aaron Swartz

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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.
John Rawls

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke

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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Nawal El Saadawi

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I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W. S. Gilbert

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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Sophocles

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I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.
Jenna Talackova

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Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.
Bryan Stevenson

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Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
Aly Khan

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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Tom Petty

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As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.
Emmeline Pankhurst

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Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
Sam Ervin

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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
Sri Aurobindo

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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
Bernadette Devlin

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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Spurgeon

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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

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Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Julian Assange

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If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
Richard Stallman

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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
H. G. Wells

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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.
Colin Kaepernick

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Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

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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.

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The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.
Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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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

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
William Hazlitt

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The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
Milton Steinberg

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn

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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
Byron Katie

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Saint Augustine

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
John Calvin

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The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
Anthony Kennedy

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There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
J. C. Ryle

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If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
Umar

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Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.
George Washington

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Robert Greene

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Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.
Garrison Keillor

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How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
Henry Clay

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One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
Imagawa Sadayo