Best Unjust Wisdom
378 Unjust quotes by 285 unique authors
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In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,... I underscore the…
— Pope Francis
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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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.…
— Thomas Sankara
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I believe Social Security is unjust. I think it's wrong. I think it penalizes responsible people. It penalizes the young and it's a massive redistribution…
— Yaron Brook
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments,…
— Lucy Parsons
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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I…
— Mark Twain
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God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious,…
— John Climacus
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Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that…
— Thomas Paine
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If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is…
— Jimmy Carter
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Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination…
— Lierre Keith
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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…
— J C Ryle
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This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,…
— Pope John Paul II
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
— Eglantyne Jebb
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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…
— Gorgias
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I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible. I…
— Margaret Thatcher
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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…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
— Aaron Swartz
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It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the…
— Robert Southey
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[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.
— Charley Reese
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The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action…
— Emile Durkheim
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession…
— Marquis de Sade
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I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
— Chelsea Clinton
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