Living well is the best revenge.
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It is the spirit and not the law that keeps justice alive.
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I'm armed with more than complete steel,--
The justice of my quarrel.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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What does the Lord require of us? To seek justice. To love kindness. To walk humbly with our God.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
--Judge Learned Hand in The Great Judge
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The Great Judge
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The only
true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily
protection or kindness.
History says, Don’t hope on this side of the
grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can
rise up, and hope and history rhyme.
All things…call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to
listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of
being…. But we can give it to them only through the love that
listens.
He who decides a case
without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered
just.
Justice is the
insurance which we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium
which we pay for it.
Justice and power
must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and
whatever is powerful may be just.
Justice, being
destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve.
To no man will we
sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.
[Lat., Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut
differemus, rectum au justitiam.]
No free man shall be
taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way
destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful
judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
Moderation is the
basis of justice.
Injustice anywhere is
a threat to justice everywhere.
Justice is the soul
of the universe.
Until the great mass
of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's
welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Justice is
indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be
limited, uniform, and distinct.
Justice, though
moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their
flight.
One man's word is no
man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
Justice is but the
distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
Justice without
wisdom is impossible.
Pity and forbearance
should characterize all acts of justice.
Justice is the great
end of civil society.
Above all other
things is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is
better; but justice excels them all.
Peace and justice are
two sides of the same coin.
Justice is truth in
action.
All religion and all
ethics are summed up in justice.
Recompense injury
with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Justice is like the
north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.
Let us remember that
justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Justice extorts no
reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
Justice renders to
every one his due.
Justice is the bread
of the nation; it is always hungry for it.
Justice is itself the
great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it,
under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
The virtue of justice
consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Justice is a certain
rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances
confronting him.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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