"Between friends there is no need of justice."
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"There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government."
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"It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself."
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"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."
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"What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
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"Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it."
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"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc"
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"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore"
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"It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin."
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"Expediency often silences justice."
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"We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically."
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"I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place."
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"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly."
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"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."
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"Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed."
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"If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country."
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"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."
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"Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice."
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"There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything."
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