Plutarch Quotes
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
Nancy Gibbs
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Kailash Satyarthi
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Wendell Berry
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
Barack Obama
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
Barbara Lee
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
Calvin Klein
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
Mandy Patinkin
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
Adam Michnik
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Orison Swett Marden
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
Tamsin Egerton
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. Lawrence
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Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.
Dana Boente
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Kamala Harris
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
Hamza Yusuf
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
Christina Romer
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Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
Plutarch