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1. "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

2. "In violence, we forget who we are."

Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"

Quotations about: Human

3. "Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

4. "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

5. "In communism, man oppresses man. In capitalism, it's the other way around."

Anon.

6. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

7. "I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day."

Albert Camus, "The Fall"

8. "What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Albert Camus, "The Rebel"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

9. "I hate victims who respect their executioners."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Condemned of Altona"

10. "It's not a color of skin that should separate people, but a thickness."

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Human

11. "Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

12. "Punishment is justice for the unjust."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Law and Crime

13. "[...] we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."

Martin Luther King

14. "How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?"

Isaac Bashevis Singer

15. "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil

16. "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

17. "Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli, (or Joseph Joubert)

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

18. "An unjust law is no law at all."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Law and Crime

19. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King

20. "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill

Quotations about: Human

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21. "It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

22. "The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice."

François de La Rochefoucauld

23. "It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

24. "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

Socrates

Quotations about: Forgiveness

25. "Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself."

John Galsworthy

26. "Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Love

27. "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven."

Jesus Christ, Luke 6:37-38

Quotations about: God and Religion

28. "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Authority, Government

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