Justice is always violent to the party
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.” Daniel Defoe
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“The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.” Daniel Defoe
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Justice is a certain rectitude
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
“If I die a violent death, as some fear
“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.” (Handwritten statement found in her residence)” Indira Nehru Gandhi
“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