“Many would say, that oaths unbinding are,
Which 'tis unlawful and unjust to swear.”

—  Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso

Molti diran che non si de' osservare
Quel ch'era ingiusto e illicito a giurare.
Canto XL, stanza 67 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Many would say, that oaths unbinding are, Which 'tis unlawful and unjust to swear." by Ludovico Ariosto?
Ludovico Ariosto photo
Ludovico Ariosto97
Italian poet 1474–1533

Related quotes

Julian Assange photo

“Let me first frame this. I looked at something that I had seen going on in the world, which is that I thought there were too many unjust acts. And I wanted there to be more just acts, and fewer unjust acts.”

Julian Assange book When Google Met Wikileaks

Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), pp. 66-67

Terence photo

“How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!”

Terence Heauton Timorumenos

Act IV, scene 7, line 11 (839).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

Diogenes Laërtius photo

“Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

Socrates, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

Abraham Lincoln photo

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation — of which that constitution was the organic law.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, "If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong" (1864)

Pat Paulsen photo

“A good many people today feel our present draft laws are unjust. These people are called soldiers.”

Pat Paulsen (1927–1997) United States Marine

&quot;An Editorial: Are Our Draft Laws Unfair?&quot;, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, unidentified episode<br>Featured in Pat Paulsen for President (1968), part 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbP0ufyax5A&amp;feature=relmfu, 02:42 ff (11:42 ff in full program)<br>Alternative version archived at &quot;Should Television Shows Be Censored?&quot; http://www.paulsen.com/censor.html, Paulsen.com, October 29, 1967 <br class="br">Context: A good many people today feel our present draft laws are unjust. These people are called soldiers. In one of the arguments against the draft, we hear it is unfair, immoral, discourages young men from studying, ruins their careers and their lives. Picky, picky, picky! We propose a draft lottery, in which the names of all eligible males will be put into a hat, and the men will be drafted according to their hat sizes. The tiny heads will go into the military service, and the fat heads will go into government.

Francis Thompson photo

“The angels keep their ancient places;—
Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
‘Tis ye, ‘tis your estrangèd faces,
That miss the many-splendoured thing.”

Francis Thompson (1859–1907) British poet

St. 4. <br class="br"> The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

Ba Jin photo

“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat.”

Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist

As quoted in Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005) by Khoon Choy Lee
Context: Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. … A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”

Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

George Müller photo

“As to the other means of grace I would say: I fell into the snare, into which so many young believers fall, the reading of religious books in preference to the Scriptures.”

George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman

A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative

Dwight D. Eisenhower photo

“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

As quoted in Nineteen Stars : a Study in Military Character and Leadership (1971) by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289
1960s
Context: Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Related topics