"When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene."
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"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
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"Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems."
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""From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary.""
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"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
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"Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike."
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"It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it."
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"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."
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"For jokes as well as justice come in with speech."
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"I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period."
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"And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable."
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"Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt."
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"Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law."
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"And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice."
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"And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course."
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"We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy."
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"No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's captivity and death, ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla."
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"It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world."
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"Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other."
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"Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice."
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