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No one who errs unwillingly is evil. -- Sophocles
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. -- Robert Jenkins
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. -- Samuel Johnson
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. -- Georg Buchner
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly. -- Protagoras
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. -- Samuel Johnson
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it. -- Anthony Horowitz
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth. -- Epictetus
Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly. -- Terri E Apter
Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly. -- Socrates
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. -- William Hazlitt
Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics, -- Meryl Streep
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. -- Thomas Jefferson
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. -- Thomas a Kempis
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself. -- Joseph Joubert
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. -- Saint Basil
They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important. -- Tony Dungy
Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say. -- Shannon Hale

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