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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

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

Charlotte Bronte

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Edgar Watson Howe

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Meanwhile many political prisoners continue to languish unjustly, proof that this nation's talk about reconciliation is nothing but empty rhetoric.

Leonard Peltier

We felt that Mr. Turner was unjustly killed at the hands of the police department and somebody needed to step up and say something about it. Now that we're formed, we will follow up on pertinent issues of concern in our community to assure that policies, state, and federal laws, are not violated against any citizen of Pitt County.

Al Alston

Another person might have been unjustly prosecuted, and for other reasons which I can't explain at this time, but will become evident in the course of time, it was his firm instructions to me that he wished to get this matter over with.

David Hobson

... In my opinion, the article is unjustly hard on Mr. Rove and over-the-top complimentary to me, thereby creating a too-pat contrast that is, I fell, most unfair to Mr. Rove.

John Diiulio

At this point, I don't even know if I have a job still. I feel I'm being unjustly pushed out the door without a reason why.

Jenny Velez

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

I was convinced we would eliminate Inter as I thought we lost unjustly in Milan. We knew we were playing against a great team, but we are a great team too.

Manuel Pellegrini

Shi Tao is being unjustly punished by a government that routinely jails journalists.

Ann Cooper

The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right.

Dawud Walid

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

Mark Hooker

His conscience got the better of him. He's feeling that the family next door needed closure. He feels that another person might have been unjustly prosecuted.

David Hobson