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"In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
"That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body."
"One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions."
"Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert."
"No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise."
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed."
"Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen."
"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
"The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious."
"The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom."
"The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it."
"Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?"
"I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway."
"I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi."
"Justice is the essence of peace"
"How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."
"Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect."
"They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own."
"Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st."
"The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try."
