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Injustice is a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored

• Injustice: Unfair treatment: a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored. Merriam Webster
• Injustice: Lack of fairness or justice. Oxford Dictionary
• Injustice: Misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system or fellow human beings. Wikipedia
• Fairness,  Justice,  Equality,  Abuse,  Prejudice

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Unfortuntely, the world is full of injustice …

• The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus. Michelle Tea
• For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Joyce Cary
• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! Edward Young
• All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. Alice Walker
• Injustice constitutes the essence of social life. Emil Cioran
• Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin’d, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind. Homer

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… especially in the form of social and economic injustice …

• Obscene richness in the light of extreme poverty is a grave injustice. Hanno Langenhoven
• Injustice constitutes the essence of social life. Emil Cioran
• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. Martin Luther King Jr
• Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. Stuart Wilde
• Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon. Marc Morial
• Poverty

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… often with greed at the root of it

• Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. Julian Casablancas
• Greed

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Injustice can be harsh, discordant and cruel

• Of all the things of a man’s soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. Plato
• Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. Henry David Thoreau
• Cruelty

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• An injustice against one is an injustice against all. Kevin Jordan
• An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. Samuel Johnson

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Injustice is always hard to bear for the victim …

• I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. Millicent Fenwick
• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. L. Mencken
• Injustice, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. Ambrose Bierce
• Victim mentality

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… and does damage to the perpetrator too

• He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato
• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. Sophocles
• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. Hosea Ballou

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Injustice can lead to hate, war, strife and chaos

• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. Harry S. Truman
• Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don’t love him, and you will come to hate him. John Ruskin
• Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. Horace Mann
• Injustice boils in men’s hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. Mother Jones
• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Thomas Hobbes
• Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. George Washington
• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. Ida B. Wells
• Hate,  Chaos

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Injustice leads to great waste

• Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. William Feather
• Waste

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Whatever is founded on injustice never lasts

• A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Injustice never rules forever. Seneca
• National injustice is a sure road to national downfall. William Ewart Gladstone

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Injustice, some would say, is in the eye of the beholder …

• One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom another’s folly. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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… though often it is undeniable

• Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers — and most others in the profession — will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it. Alan Dershowitz

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Often the greatest injustices are done by those who believe, without doubt, that they’re right

• The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice. Saul D. Alinsky

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Often the greatest injustices are done to minorities by majorities

• That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world. John Adams

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Often the greatest injustices are done by those who defend their actions in the name of tradition

• Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes–not often, but sometimes–the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong. Matthew Scully
• Tradition

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Don’t submit to injustice …

• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. Mahatma Gandhi
• Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them. William Faulkner

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… for if you submit to it, injustice usually only grows greater

• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass
• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice. Grover Cleveland

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When confronted with injustice, face it head on

• At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one. Bill O’Reilly

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Use your anger to guard against injustice

• When you have been done an injustice, anger flares up before you have a chance to understand what has happened. It’s as though someone else is looking out for you and letting you know immediately that you have been wronged. Anger gives you the impetus you need to change conditions that need to be changed. In this way, anger is like a dark guardian angel, a daimonic force–a daimon is an unnamed but felt invisible presence–that offers guidance and spiritual support. Thomas Moore
• I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. Hugo Claus
• It’s my duty as a human being to be pissed off. Eric Bogosian
• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. Saint Francis de Sales
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Protest firmly against injustice that you see around you

• Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert F. Kennedy
• If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. Nelson DeMille
• If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto Guevara
• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow
• Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. Plato
• Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession – to defend it against every thrust from within or without. Dwight Eisenhower

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Remaining passive in the face of injustice is the same as defending it

• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu
• Passivity is the same as defending injustice. Deepak Chopra

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Defend people against injustice even if you don’t agree with them

• Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman

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Be prepared to battle injustice if necessary …

• As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill
• Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations. Ralph Nader
• There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. Gloria Steinem

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… if only by being a flea against it

• You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. Marian Wright Edelman

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Resisting injustice is a lifelong task

• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. “Dear God.” he cried out, “look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don’t you send help?” God responded,”I did send help. I sent you.” When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime. David J. Wolpe
• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all. Albert Camus

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However, remember you can never defeat injustice by unjust means

• A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves. Norman Macdonald
• 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
• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. Sallust
• It’s time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice. Sergey Lavrov
• While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace

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The most powerful way to resist injustice is with an attitude of love

• Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. Buddha
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Open your heart with compassion to the injustice in the world

• It takes great courage to open one’s heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world. Vincent A. Gallagher
• Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. Che Guevara
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy

• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost
• A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young
• Mercy

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Let go of your resentment from past injustices

• In examining our own lives, we might be able to spot the heavy weight of yesterday’s deeds that we persist in carrying around with us. We might be carrying bitterness and resentment because we may have felt betrayed by a friend.  We might be carrying anger and a feeling of injustice because we lost out on something we really wanted while someone else got it.  We might be carrying hurt feelings because someone we liked criticized us.  But continuing to carry harsh and negative feelings from the past can be like picking up a pebble in your shoe while you are out walking.  You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain.  The choice is yours.  You can release your anger and hurt feelings, just as you can remove the pebble from your shoe.  John Marks Templeton
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Prefer to suffer an injustice than commit one

• If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democritus
• He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato
• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. Plato
• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. Plato
• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. Jacques Rousseau

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Man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary …

• Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
• The best guarantee for justice in public dealings is the participation in their own government of the people most likely to suffer from injustice. John Morley
• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. Lyndon B. Johnson
• Democracy

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… although the democratic system doesn’t always lead to justice

• Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? Lewis H. Lapham

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Justice, itself, is by no means always just …

• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned. Anatole France
• Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. Thomas Fuller, M. D.
• A book might be written on the injustice of the just. Pauline Kael

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… and laws are by no means always just either

• A unjust law, is no law at all. Martin Luther
• If the machine of government … is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Henry David Thoreau
• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing. Jimmy Carter
• The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Benjamin Franklin
• Extreme law is often extreme injustice. Terence
• Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honoré de Balzac
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin
• Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It’s unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months. Tom Robbins
• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law. Martin Luther King Jr

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If a law is unjust, some argue, we should break it

• One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Henry David Thoreau

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We all like to believe that injustice will eventually be punished …

• Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine of Hippo

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… even if only by God or karma

• Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally, justice triumphs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson
• God,  Karma

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By its very nature, life is not always fair or just

• It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. Cesar Chavez
• People don’t always get what they deserve in this world. Lemony Snicket
• I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. W.S. Gilbert
• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. Dennis Wholey
• Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. Robert Brault
• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde
• Life is not fair; get used to it. Bill Gates
• Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now. Sue Monk Kidd

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Railing against life’s injustice only makes us suffer

• Every story is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair. Byron Katie
• Suffering

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We can only be happy if we learn to accept that life will sometimes be unjust to us

• One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It’s not and it won’t. When we make this mistake, we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what’s wrong with life. “It’s not fair,” we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be. Richard Carlson
• Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier
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We can remind ourselves that while life may be unjust at times, it’s still well worth living

• Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. Dorothy Thompson
• The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. Thomas Huxley

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Try not to be suspicious by nature, for suspicions are most often unjust

• Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Hosea Ballou
• Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. Abraham Lincoln

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Be unjust to yourself and you’re likely to be unjust to others too

• If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures. Carl Jung

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A belief in an unjust God often makes the believer unjust too

• It is of course evident that everything in one’s religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped.  If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also.  If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well. Hannah Whitall Smith
• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Richard Dawkins

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An unjust peace, some argue, is better than a just war

• I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. Cicero
• Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. Desiderius Erasmus
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• Recalling an old magistrate’s words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just’s umbrella. Sam Ervin
• A good many people feel that our present draft laws are unjust; these people are called soldiers Pat Paulsen
• Boomerang: A working model of poetic justice.
• Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens. African Proverb
• In the halls of justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
• It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. Arthur  …Bugs’ Baer
• judge : someone with a sense of justice, a rational mind and an incredible bladder.  C. Payne
• Justice always prevails three times out of seven.   Alley’s Axiom
• Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. Judge Sturgess
• Justice: A decision in your favor.
• Karma: Justice without the feeling of satisfaction.
• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx
• My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me. Phyllis Diller
• Parents are not quite interested in justice they are interested in quiet. Bill Cosby
• Poetic justice: when your dentist tells you it isn’t going to hurt and then catches his hand on the drill.   Bowles
• The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously. Kevin Bacon
• When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice; I want mercy. Billy Hughes
• Your mother’s down there throwing a monkey wrench into the halls of justice. Archie Bunker

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