All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“If the world is as you like it, then do nothing. But if it is broken, if it is unjust, take a… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“My friends, we cannot win the respect of the white people of the South or elsewhere if we are willing to trade… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her… — Sheridan Brown Copy Share Image
The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
