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Justice is about fairness

• Justice: The quality of being fair and reasonable. Oxford Dictionary
• Justice: Fairness in the way people are dealt with.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Justice: The administering of deserved punishment or reward. Dictionary.com
• Justice: The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness.  Dictionary.com
• Justice: The quality of being just, impartial, or fair.  Merriam Webster
• Fairness,  Equality,  Impartiality,  Equality,  Integrity,  Truth,  Karma

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Justice is one of the great virtues and values of human life  

• …there is astonishing convergence across the millennia and across cultures about virtue and strength. Confucius, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Bushido samurai code, the Bhagavad- Gita, and other venerable traditions disagree on the details, but all of these codes include six core virtues: Wisdom and knowledge, Courage, Love and humanity, Justice, Temperance and Spirituality. Happiness is these virtues in action. Martin Seligman
• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
• Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. Stephen Covey
• The ancient and eternal values of human life – truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing.  John O’Donohue
• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Benjamin Franklin
• To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.  Martin Seligman
• Justice is the virtue that innocence rejoiceth in. Ben Jonson
• There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. Joseph Addison
• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle  
• Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. Socrates
• Values,  Virtue

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Justice is a great inner human yearning  

• Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. George Eliot
• There’s no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there’s something that still swells my chest. There’s magic in that…. It tells me that’s the way things are supposed to be. Brent Weeks
• Desire,  Human needs

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Justice is a requirement for a stable, civil, free, democratic society  

• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Patrick Henry
• Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
• A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable. John Rawls
• It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. Aristotle
• Justice is the great end of civil society. David Dudley Field
• Democracy

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The aim of true justice is to give everyone their due  

• The aim of justice is to give everyone his due. Cicero
• Justice commands us to have mercy upon all men, to consult the interests of the whole human race, to give to everyone his due. Cicero
• Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. Domitus Ulpian

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The aim of true justice is to protect the innocent  

• If violence is the salvation of the brutes, the salvation of man is Justice. Charles Wagner
• Isn’t it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice? Susanne Alleyn
• Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. Epicurus
• Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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The aim of true justice is to foster peace  

• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. Dwight Eisenhower
• Only the just man enjoys peace of mind. Epicurus
• If you want peace, work for justice. Henry Louis Mencken
• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Albert Einstein
• Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. Baruch Spinoza
• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight David Eisenhower
• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson
• Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. Barbara Hall
• The triumph of justice is the only peace. Robert C. Ingersoll
• Inner peace

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The aim of true justice is to foster freedom  

• The universal law of justice is: act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law. Immanuel Kant
• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. Samuel Johnson
• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Patrick Henry
• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore it destroys freedom. Albert Camus
• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Edmund Burke
• Freedom

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The aim of justice is to fill evil doers with the fear of punishment  

• Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. William Ernest Hocking
• Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. Elbert Hubbard
• Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal to his punishment. Edward Counsel
• When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. Proverbs 21:15
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The aim of justice is to accommodate the conflicting interests of society  

• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. Judge Learned Hand
• The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands. Thomas Nixon Carver
• Conflict management

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The best measure of justice is to examine how much it protects the weak and poor  

• If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected–those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most!– and listens to their testimony. James Baldwin
• The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is. Howard Zinn
• The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. Proverbs 29:7
• Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Weakness,  Poverty

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True justice should not be confused with killing and revenge  

• Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. Julia Ward Howe
• But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. Robert Jordan
• Show the jury pictures of the violated body of a dead child, tender as a fledgeling, and some atavistic voice within always whispered, “Someone ought to pay for this.” The need for vengeance, so easy to confuse with the imperatives of justice, always worked for the prosecution. The jury didn’t want to convict the wrong man, but they did need to convict someone. D. James
• This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence. Maxwell Anderson
• Revenge

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Unfortunately, justice can be repressive and unjust …  

• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned. Anatole France
• Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. Isaiah Berlin
• The course of justice often prevents it. Edward Counsel
• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime–namely, repressive justice. Simone Weil
• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. Walt Whitman
• The greatest enemy of justice is privilege. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach  
• Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. Thomas Fuller, M. D.  

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… and in today’s world, law and justice are not always the same thing  

• Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. Charles T. Sprading
• It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.  Bob Enyart
• Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.  Edison Haines
• One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law. Robert Brault  
• There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court. Clarence Darrow
• This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. Frank Herbert
• 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  

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Law without justice is a wound without a cure  

• A unjust law, is no law at all. Martin Luther
• Law without justice is a wound without a cure. William Scott Downey
• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. Earl Warren
• Justice is incidental to law and order. John Edgar Hoover

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All laws should be constantly examined  

• Justice is what is established; and thus, all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established. Blaise Pascal

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Justice should be fair  

• Fairness is what justice really is. Potter Stewart
• Fairness

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Justice should be truth in action  

• The sword of Truth is a blunt instrument without the keen edge of Justice. Michael Rawls
• Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli
• Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mahatma Gandhi
• Truth

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Justice should go hand in hand with mercy  

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln
• He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? Byron
• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost
• Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. Mason Cooley
• A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. Pope Francis
• Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anselm of Canterbury
• The essence of justice is mercy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. Sebastian Barry
• Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Vera Nazarian
• Clemency is the support of justice. Russian Proverb
• Let us be merciful as well as just. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
• The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. Kahlil Gibran  
• It strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. Sebastian Barry
• Mercy

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Justice should be for everyone  

• Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Justice should be blind  

• Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. William Penn

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Justice should come from conscience  

• A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice. Walter Savage Landor
• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Martin Luther
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Justice should be combined with charity  

• Justice without charity is at best a dutiful stepmother. Austin O’malley
• Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity. Austin O’malley
• Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled, or sick without care. Bill Moyers
• Faith based charity provides crumbs from the table. Faith based justice offers a place at the table. Bill Moyers
• Giving

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Justice should be combined with wisdom and knowledge  

• Justice without wisdom is impossible. James Anthony Froude
• Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Cicero
• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. Aristotle
• Wisdom,  Knowledge

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Justice should be impartial  

• A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but more by clear discernment and impartial justice. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt     
• Justice delivered unequally is injustice.

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Justice should be about doing what’s right  

• To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels. David Dudley Field
• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation
• Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. William Penn
• Morality and ethics,  Right action

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Justice should be swift  

• Justice delayed is justice denied. William Gladstone

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The love of justice should be more than the fear of suffering injustice  

• The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice. Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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Stand up against injustice  

• It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. 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
• It takes great courage to open one’s heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world. Vincent A. Gallagher
• 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
• Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin
• If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto Guevara
• I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Martin Luther King Jr.
• To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Confucius
• 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
• 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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To expect justice, you must be just  

• If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. Stephen R. Lawhead

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Retain the natural sense of fairness and justice you had as a child  

• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. G.K. Chesterton
• Children are born with such a sense of fairness that they will accept no less than equal treatment for all. I know – I have three. I hope that as they grow, they keep that sense of justice and learn to challenge the old adage that life’s not fair. It should be, in so far as we have control of it. Beth Vanden Hoek

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Better to let the guilty escape than for one innocent person to suffer  

• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
• It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire

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Karma is justice  

• Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance. Mary T. Browne
• Karma

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Justice can hurt  

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. L. Mencken
• Never pray for justice, because you might get some. Margaret Atwood

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• 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
• 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

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