"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"

Justice, Crime, Wrong, Morality

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"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

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"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

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"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

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"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade."

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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

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"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."

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"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks [we] take a long time to accomplish, that's all."

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"What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others."

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"If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love."

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