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Men copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

—Richard Wright

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The great thieves punish the little ones.

—Thomas Fuller

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When the judge calls the criminal's name out, he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

—Jean Genet

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When love is gone, there's always justice./ And when justice is gone, there's always force./ And when force is gone, there's always Mom./ Hi, Mom!

—Laurie Anderson

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

—Voltaire

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I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity.

—Parker J. Palmer

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

—Agesilaus the Second

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

—Antione De Riveral

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

—Aristotle

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Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

—Barbara Hall

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Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

—Earl Warren

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

—Epicurus

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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

—Groucho Marx

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

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