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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
SOPHOCLES, Ajax the Locrian [fragment]
- For Justice, though she's painted blind,
- Is to the weaker side inclin'd.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
ANATOLE FRANCE, Crainquebille
You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
MARGE SIMPSON, The Simpsons
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, inaugural address, Mar. 4, 1925
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
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, Winterset
Justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is.
- Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel,
- The justice of my quarrel.
APHRA BEHN, The Moor's Revenge
Justice is a fading light.
SHERYL CROW, "Love is a Good Thing"
The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A Testament of Hope
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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