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"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation."
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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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