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Justice Quotes
"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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"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."
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"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."
49
"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
48
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
47
"I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done."
47
"This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end."
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"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."
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"People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment."
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"It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case."
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"I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others."
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"When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law."
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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
43
"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
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"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars."
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"Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice."
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"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman."
42
"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."
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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications."
42
"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
41
"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."
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"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"
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"Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value."
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"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
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"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
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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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"A free nation is built on the principles of justice, equality, and the pursuit of shared aspirations."
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"May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons. Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
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"There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
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"When Gregory says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did they do it?' But when he says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did the court find them so?' The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away."
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"I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality."
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