Justice

Justice

Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion or equity. It is also the act of being just and/or fair.

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Famous quotes containing the word justice:

    “These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. “I have 45 years.” “But,” said the justice, “you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago.” “SeƱor Judge,” she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, “I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!””
    —State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Man is, then, only disguise, falsehood, hypocrisy—both in himself and in regard to others. He does not wish any one to tell him the truth; he avoids telling it to others; and all these dispositions, so removed from justice and reason, have a natural root in his heart.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “The hour when you say, “What does my justice matter? I do not see that I am embers and coals. But the just are embers and coals!””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)