"Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust."
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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 would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him."
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"I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war."
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"While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others."
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"Effective action is always unjust."
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"I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult."
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"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore."
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"I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace."
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"All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just."
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"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."
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"But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that."
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"And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state."
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"The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late."
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"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"
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"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty."
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"An unjust punishment is never forgotten."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's."
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"A unjust law, is no law at all."
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