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Unjust Quotes - Page 5

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

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.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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”

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 (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

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

"Former President Carter Addresses Faith, Justice, and Iraq War at Baptist Centenary" by Maria Mackay, www.christianpost.com. July 30, 2005.

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

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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