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| Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| 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 |
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| Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned |
| Anatole France |
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| Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. |
| Elias Canetti |
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| Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes |
| Samuel Butler |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Laws do not persuade because they threaten |
| Seneca |
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| 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 |
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| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. |
| Groucho Marx |
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| Nothing is to be preferred before justice. |
| Socrates |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| 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) |
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