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Justice Quotes
"Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value."
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"It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing."
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"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."
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"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
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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."
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"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
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"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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"Someone asked me why does bad thing happen to good people?My answer: because when bad thing happens to bad nobody sees it. When something bad happens to a bad man there is no difference but when it happens to a good person people will know. Satan doesn t advertise good things because that is not his job. His job is to steal, kill and destroy. The devil doesn t talk good of good people but good people should always talk of something that is good."
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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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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
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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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"A prosperous nation is built on the foundation of justice, equality, and the well-being of its people."
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"For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes."
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"My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me."
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"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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"I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their 'own' people and mounds of corpses on the territory of their neighbours. I was glad to see each of these monsters brought to trial, and think the achievement should (and one day will) form part of the battle honours of British Labour. Many of the triumphant pelters and taunters would have left the dictators and aggressors in place: they too will have their place in history."
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"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."
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"Isn't Santa just a stand in for the society that has locked them up for formative years? Something that watches and judges, telling them that they got what they deserved based on their behavior? Surely they have to have noticed that Saint Nick, like the judicial system itself, tends to look more favorably upon rich children. He is fat, white, past middle age, and holds all the cards."
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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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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another."
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"Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it."
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"Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished."
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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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"What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier."
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