Unjust Quotes - Page 5
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.234, Penguin
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 14, 1889.
Leges, 731c (translated byTrevor J Saunders,1970).
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
Maurice Druon (1956). “The Accursed Kings: The strangled queen”
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
'Comus' (1637) l. 586
John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.191
John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott”, p.325
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1580, Ageless Reads
Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken
a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School”, p.17, The Floating Press