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"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion "
William Blake
"In this world, there’s a lot of people who have an opinion, but the opinions of those who stand up for what’s right without expecting anything in return are the ones that last"
Atticus Finch
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong"
Frederick Douglass
"Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe"
Frederick Douglass
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God."
Walt Whitman
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"
Adam Smith
"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it"
Saint Augustine
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Plato
"Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for."
Alain de Botton
"When all is said and done, the one who is right will prevail"
Aesop
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door"
Charles Dickens
"The essence of human rights is the right to have rights."
Hannah Arendt
"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice; injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged"
Samuel Johnson
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Michel de Montaigne
"Murder will out, certain"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens"
Plato
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself"
Plato
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"
Plato
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom"
John Locke
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