Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
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Diary (14 July 1889).Rutherford B. Hayes
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Just Cause: You are debauched and shameless.
Unjust Cause: You have spoken roses of me.
Just Cause: And a dirty lickspittle.
Unjust Cause: You crown me with lilies.
Just Cause: And a parricide.
Unjust Cause: You don't know that you are sprinkling me with gold.
Just Cause: Certainly not so formerly, but with lead.
Unjust Cause: But now this is an ornament to me.
(tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus - for comparison with tr. below)Aristophanes
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Praise Him, all creatures here below!
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host!
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!Thomas Ken
We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
William J. Brennan
It was easier to keep myself from becoming a success as an actor. Critics were careful not to outrage my modesty by their praise, and the public scrupulously refused to debauch me with applause. I have thought about it a good deal, and my conclusion is that I was ahead of my time. Or behind it.
Robertson Davies
How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts the human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.
Martin Luther King
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