Quotations About / On: JUSTICE

  • 41.
    Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
    (Heraclitus (c. 535-475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. The Presocratics, p. 74, ed. Philip Wheelwright, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. (1960).)
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  • 42.
    When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.
    (Pierre Vergniaud (1753-1793), French revolutionary leader. speech, Jan. 17, 1793, to the National Assembly. arguing in favor of executing Louis XVI. Four days later the king was guillotined, and in October of the same year, Vergniaud, as leader of the Girondist faction, met the same fate.)
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  • 43.
    Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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  • 44.
    They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
    (William Penn (1644-1718), British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania. Some Fruits of Solitude, pt. 1, no. 46 (1693).)
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  • 45.
    "What business is it of yours, then?"
    "It's every man's business to see justice done."
    (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British author. Henry Wood questioning and Sherlock Holmes replying, in "The Crooked Man," The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892).)
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  • 46.
    Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Wealth," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 47.
    Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, July 24, 1838, at Dartmouth College. "Literary Ethics," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).)
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  • 48.
    It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    (James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author. "No Name in the Street," The Price of the Ticket (1972, repr. 1985).)
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  • 49.
    Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
    (Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b. 1924), U.S. president. Why Not the Best? P. 93, Nashville, TN: Broadman Press (1975). He is describing the compatibility of religion and politics.)
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  • 50.
    Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
    (Gordon, 1st Baron Of Bury Hewart (1870-1943), British judge. Quoted in King's Bench Reports, vol. 1 (1924). ruling on the quashing of a conviction on technical grounds, Nov. 9, 1923, in Rex v. Sussex Justices.)
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