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Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
Samuel Johnson
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake
George Bernard Shaw
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Anatole France
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes
Samuel Butler
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Ambrose Bierce
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
Bertrand Russell
Laws do not persuade because they threaten
Seneca
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity
Edmund Burke
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Socrates
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power
George Washington
Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also return. (The Elevated Places 7.29)
Quran
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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