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We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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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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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

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Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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Justice has long arm.

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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

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Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

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The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.

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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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