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Justice Quotes
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
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"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
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"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
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"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
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"The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression."
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"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
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"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
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"Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
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"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
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"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
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"Justice is incidental to law and order."
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"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case."
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"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
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"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
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"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."
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"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
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"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
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"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
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"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
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"We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges."
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"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."
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