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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. -Storm Jameson
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You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

Matt Groening
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. -Epicurus
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin Cardozo
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The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice. -Cindy Sheehan
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes
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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. -Barbara Hall
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The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Vanna Bonta
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great. -Abe Fortas
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I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

Thomas Erskine
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Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

Warren E. Burger
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I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge. -Margaret Deland
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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

George Norman Douglas
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Alan M. Dershowitz
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In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. -Robert H. Jackson
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To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Lucan
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Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. -Irving R. Kaufman
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

Warren E. Burger
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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Lord Mansfield
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

John Paul Stevens
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI
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I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice. -Hannah Green
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