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Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. — Dale Carnegie

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

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

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

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust. — Wendy McElroy

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

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly. — Plautus

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi

The gods hate unjust men. — Gnaeus Naevius

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? — Thomas Sowell

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. — Albert Camus

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust. — Zendaya

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. — Thomas Szasz

God is neither just nor unjust. 'No one be hurt in the slightest'; that is God's language. Justice and injustice is people's language. — Dada Bhagwan

The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella. — Charles Bowen

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness. — Thomas Watson

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness. — Vachel Lindsay

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. — Sophocles

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. — Edmund Spenser

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo

All government wars are unjust. — Murray Rothbard

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next. — Rebecca Rasmussen

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust? — Thomas More

Justice in the extreme is often unjust. — Jean Racine

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? — Thomas Carlyle

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. — Gautama Buddha

Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world. — Alison Assiter

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. — Charles XII Of Sweden

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

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever. — Margaret Drabble

in a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don't perceive it to be unjust. — Peter Thiel

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. — Marcus Aurelius

It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You — Patrick O'Brian

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. — Martin Luther King Jr.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers. — Kristin Cashore

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

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. — Alexander Pope

The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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 sit potior — Desiderius Erasmus

school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice — Oakes Jeannie

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice Triumphs; — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every unjust man is unjust against his will. — Plato

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate. — Miguel De Unamuno

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust. — W. H. Auden

A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun. — Philip Roth

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save. — John Milton

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. — Abraham Lincoln

You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong. — Suzy Kassem

Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out. — Heather Day Gilbert

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

For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so. — Plato

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! — Anonymous

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. — E.B. White

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 — James Joyce

Peer pressure must never be an influence on us. Nor should unjust rules or laws have any effect on us. What is right must always be done. — Abbot George Burke

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. — Martin Luther King Jr.

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. — Charles Spurgeon

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. — Luc De Clapiers

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God. — Martin Luther

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. — Emily Saliers

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. — Saint Francis De Sales

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. — Ambrose Bierce

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. — Thomas C. Foster

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. — Will Advise

Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... — Eliza Haywood

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. — Anne Frank

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true. — Dean Koontz

And may the crows feast on the unjust. — Jim Butcher

Unjust rule does not last forever. — Seneca The Younger

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men. — Mahatma Gandhi

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. — Sophocles

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. — Emanuel Celler

Nothing"
the unjust man complained
"is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined. — E. E. Cummings

[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

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. — Ted Olson

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not. — Matthew Fox

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust. — Theodor Haecker

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

An unjust law is no law at all. — Augustine Of Hippo

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. — Mary McCarthy

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. — Alan Greenspan

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks