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Letter "U" » unjust
«Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Gratitude,
Misery,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
grateful, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, spared, The World I, unhappiness, unjust
«Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.»
Author: James Q. Wilson
| About:
Drinks
| Keywords:
arresting, drunks, failing, harmed, identifiable, in a sense, score, unjust, vagrant, vagrants
«Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
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armed, Armed force, armed forces, bands, be on, Body of, constitute, disarmed, enforce, force of law, in the United States, pretense, pretenses, raised, regular, Supreme Power, The Sword, troops, United Kingdom, unjust
«But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: / And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
heresy, Prophets, resurrection, resurrection from the dead, resurrection of the dead, The God, The Prophets, unjust
«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.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
and the like, association, Association of, characteristic, The Association, the like, unjust
«An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.»
«A weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.»
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
accepts, arouse, arousing, breaks, community, conscience, expressing, higher law, highest, imprisonment, individual, injustice, injustices, in reality, law, penalties, penalty, respect, tells, The Law, unjust, willingly
«Effective action is always unjust.»
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