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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." Lisa Alther 4.3214 average rating  
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him." Saint Thomas Aquinas 4.5625 average rating  
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." Corazón Cojuangco Aquino 4.5263 average rating  
"Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes 4.0000 average rating  
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.6667 average rating  
"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.3333 average rating  
"Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice." Marcel Ayme 3.6667 average rating  
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard David Bach 4.2333 average rating  
"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself." R. J. Baughan 4.5517 average rating  
"We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were." John Berger 4.9091 average rating  
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." Leonard Bernstein 4.8000 average rating  
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." Henry Bessemer 3.0000 average rating  
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." Henry Bessemer 3.5000 average rating  
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." William J. H. Boetcker 4.7857 average rating  
"... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting." Erma Louise Bombeck 4.7500 average rating  
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." Napolean Bonaparte 4.6250 average rating  
"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 4.5000 average rating  
"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." Bill Chickering 4.9444 average rating  
"Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy." Chuang-Tzu 4.7949 average rating  
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness." Grover Cleveland 4.5714 average rating  
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