Quotes with justice

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  • Samuel Johnson Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bobby Seale Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Crick Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 148
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Karl Kraus Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bill Haywood The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
    Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
    Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bill James The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Dorothy Nevill The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
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  • Ben Whishaw The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Assata Shakur The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Burke Marshall The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The essence of justice is mercy.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Blaise Pascal The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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