Alain de Botton Quotes, Justice Quotes, Phrases Quotes

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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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

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We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

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Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

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In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

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

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

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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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In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.

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The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

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