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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
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Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.

tench coxe

— "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution," under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789.

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If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

Alexander Hamilton

— No. 33

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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

Alexander the Great

— Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4

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My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer— how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.

robert peel

— Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1842).

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Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences... Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge , since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus Ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.

roger bacon

— cited in: Morris Kline (1969) Mathematics and the physical world. p. 1

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Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

carl jung

— "Woman in Europe" (1927) In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. P.245

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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Sir Edward Coke

— Sir Edward Coke, Reports, Semaynes' Case, Volume III, Part V, p. 185.

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To aid the bad in multiplying is, in effect, the same as maliciously providing for our descendants a multitude of enemies. Institutions which 'foster good-for-nothings' commit an unquestionable injury because they put a stop to that natural process of elimination by which society continually purifies itself.


— Herbert Spencer, 1874. Study of Sociology. London: MacMillan.

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The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.


— Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

— 1746  Letter to his son, 9 Oct.

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We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.


— 1543   Address to a deputation from the House of Commons, 31 Mar.

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If a man have a tent made in linen of which the apertures haveall beenstopped up, and it be twelve braccia across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without sustaining injury.


— Description of a parachute. Notebooks. Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.

andrew johnson

— Veto message to the House of Representatives (22 February 1869)

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

saki

— "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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I just feel that there's a little bit of lack of respect and class just to kind of leave a tournament like that and then come out and practice here, especially being the hostess. You know, I don't know the situation, if it's injury or whatever it is. It's just -- it just seemed really weird.

annika sörenstam‎

— Annika Sorenstam comments re Michelle Wie - Press Conference 2007 LPGA Championships [[4]]

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Adding insult to injury, the National Enquirer reports that Rielle Hunter (née Lisa Druck) has dumped [John] Edwards. So he's lost two elections, two women, his dignity and maybe soon his freedom and his law license. He may have a career ahead of him in country music.

james taranto

— From Best of the Web Today for June 3, 2011

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

thomas jefferson

— Query XVII (Notes on the State of Virginia)

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In consequence of the sensibility with which they are endowed, they ought to partake of natural right; so that mankind is subjected to a kind of obligation even toward the brutes. It appears, in fact, that if I am bound to do no injury to my fellow-creatures, this is less because they are rational than because they are sentient beings: and this quality, being common both to men and beasts, ought to entitle the latter at least to the privilege of not being wantonly ill-treated by the former.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

— Discourse on Inequality (1754), preface.

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As to Cæsar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Cæsar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."


— Plutarch, Life of Cicero

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It is fraud in law if a party makes representations which he knows to be false, and injury ensues, although the motives from which the representations proceeded may not have been bad.


— Tindal, C.J., Foster v. Charles (1830), 7 Bing. 105.

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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you...


— Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea. Arrian, "Anabasis Alexandri", II, 14, 4

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Interference with the course of justice by a stranger to the suit, a high public injury.


— Skipworth's Case (1866), L. R. 3.

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My practice has always been to give leave to amend unless I have been satisfied that the party applying was acting mala fide, or that by his blunder, he had done some injury to his opponent which could not be compensated for by costs or otherwise.


— Bramwell, L.J., Tildesley v. Harper (1878), L. R. 10 C. D. 396.

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Better that an individual should suffer an injury than that the public should suffer an inconvenience.

william henry ashurst

— William Henry Ashurst, Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.

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The advantage to the community outweigh the injury to the individual.


— Drove, J., Henwood v. Harrison (1872), L. R. 7 Com. PI. Ca. 613.

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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.


— Lord Coke, Semayne's Case (1605), 3 Rep. 186.

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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.


— Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4

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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...


— Anabasis Alexandri II, 14, 4 (Sourced)

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There is a point at which even justice does injury.


— Sophocles, Electra

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