Careful Words

injustice (n.)

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,

And he but naked, though locked up in steel,

Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;

If she will do 't, she will; and there's an end on 't.

But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,

Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.

Aaron Hill (1685-1750): Zara. Epilogue.

  Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.

Terence (185-159 b c): Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 5, 48. (796.)

Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd,

Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 628.

  Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7.