"Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way."
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"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"
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"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
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"Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom."
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"It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare."
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"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."
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"Unjust rule does not last forever."
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"Unjust dominion cannot be eternal."
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"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American"
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"Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust."
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"An unjust law in itself is an act of violence."
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"God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman."
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"It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves."
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"The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes."
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"[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust."
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"Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them."
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"... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
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"The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust."
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"Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion."
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"Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws."
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