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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not ...

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Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the ro...

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Zygmunt BaumanEurope: An Unfinished Adventure

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...

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Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousa...

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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of i...

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The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. The...

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbaris...

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the sa...

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If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and...

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Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two...

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Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for toleran...

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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...

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She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that ...

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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that ...

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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social j...

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The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that the...

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Alain de BottonThe Consolations of Philosophy

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

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Alan RyanOn Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he...

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We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust,...

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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness f...

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In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though...

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Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations a...

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As he himself said, "I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in th...

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He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a ...

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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues...

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True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brande...

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Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for pe...

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It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abomin...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surf...

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dicta...

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I think the first duty of society is justice.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dicta...

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I think the first duty of society is justice.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

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Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unli...

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

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God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given y...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a m...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people...

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Alfred North WhiteheadDialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tender...

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Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.

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Alice WalkerThe World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understandi...

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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the...

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To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understandi...

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Amartya SenThe Idea of Justice

Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to...

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Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise,...

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As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. Yo...

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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is n...

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Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Havi...

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I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to ...

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Ann LeckieAncillary Sword

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing ...

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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern i...

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Like honey is the sleep of the just.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and eth...

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing tem...

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will d...

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Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

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However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children can...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of ...

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There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in ...

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When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...

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When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...

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It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery b...

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The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single st...

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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

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What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance...

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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to gener...

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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the crim...

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After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it i...

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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedu...

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Barack ObamaDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the c...

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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme...

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I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also t...

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...

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