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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
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Corazon Aquino(1933-, Philippine president) |
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| The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Aristotle(BC 384-322, Greek philosopher) |
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| Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
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Margaret Atwood(1939-, Canadian novelist, poet, critic) |
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| Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
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Alice Stone Blackwell(1857-1950, American suffrage writer and journalist) |
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| Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
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Linda Blandford |
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| In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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Lenny Bruce(1925-1966, American comedian) |
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| The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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William O. Douglas(1898-1980, American supreme court justice) |
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| We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort(1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright) |
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| The essence of justice is mercy.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin(1814-1880, American author, clergyman) |
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| Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| The foundation of justice is good faith.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
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Clarence Darrow(1857-1938, American lawyer) |
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| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Daniel Defoe(1661-1731, British author) |
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| Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
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Denis Diderot(1713-1784, French philosopher) |
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| Justice is truth in action.
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Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Epicurus(c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher) |
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| A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| Every offense is avenged on earth.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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Lillian Hellman(1905-1984, American playwright) |
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| Justice is incidental to law and order.
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J. Edgar Hoover(1895-1972, American public servant) |
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| A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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Thomas H. Huxley(1825-1895, British biologist, educator) |
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| Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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Robert Green Ingersoll(1833-1899, American orator, lawyer) |
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| I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British author) |
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| The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
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Junius(1769-1771, Anonymous British letter writer) |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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Martin Luther King Jr.(1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964) |
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| In most men, the love of justice is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Walter Savage Landor(1775-1864, British poet, essayist) |
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| The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865, American President (16th)) |
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| I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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Vachel Lindsay(1878-1931, American poet) |
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| Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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Martin Luther(1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation) |
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| True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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Lord Mansfield(1867-1915, British artist, author) |
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| Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
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Roman Maxim |
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| You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
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Edwin Meese |
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| The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Reinhold Niebuhr(1892-1971, American theologian, historian) |
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| The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
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Hebrew Proverb(Sayings of Hebrew origin) |
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| Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.
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Foster M. Russell |
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| May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Marcus Annaeus Seneca(BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman) |
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| Time is the justice that examines all offenders.
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William Shakespeare(1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor) |
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| Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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Socrates(BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens) |
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| Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Gloria Steinem(1934-, American feminist writer, editor) |
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| He who spares the bad injures the good.
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Publilius Syrus(85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer) |
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| How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
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Terence(Roman writer of comedies) |
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