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  • Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. -- Aeschylus
  • Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true. -- Jonathan Swift
  • My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. -- Karl Kraus
  • Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. -- E. W. Howe
  • Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord. -- Pope Francis
  • In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. -- Edvard Munch
  • I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. -- Malcolm X
  • No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice. -- Leland Ryken
  • Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. -- William Wallace
  • Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. -- Frances Wright
  • For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce. -- Ken Salazar
  • Violence does even justice unjustly. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. -- E. W. Howe
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  • For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart. -- Karl Barth
  • Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. -- George Washington
  • Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance. -- Tertullian
  • We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure. -- John Calvin
  • He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. -- Charles Fourier
  • If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war. -- Cindy Sheehan
  • It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good. -- Pythagoras
  • There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. -- Charles Duhigg
  • For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head -- Edvard Munch
  • Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. -- Albert Camus
  • There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards. -- Colin Kaepernick
  • No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling. -- T. B. Joshua
  • Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly. -- Diane Watson
  • I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
  • May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed. -- Pope Francis
  • I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him. -- Marcel Proust
  • As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
  • So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society. -- Roderick T. Long
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