Justice Quotes
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
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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.
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One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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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.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
