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“Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.”

Humans Justice Human Beings Circumstances Accounts Infinite

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.”

Men Mind Earth Justice Records Calling All Things Accounts Afterlife Surveys Hades Tablets

Author:Aeschylus

“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.”

“At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.”

Justice Accounts Paid Debt Hereafter Paid In Full

Author:John H. Vincent

“Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.”

Matter Facts Form Lying Universe Evil Justice Moral Goodness Accounts Things That Matter Truth And Lies

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.”

Made Helping Might Mother Justice Powerful Divine Sweet Mercy Accounts Salvation Saved Wicked Mary Intercession Rigor Divine Justice

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.”

Men Doe Two Action Law Justice Powerful Five Heard Accounts Dollars Humble Billions Corporations Assets Rulers Rule Of Law

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

“Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.”

Justice Taken Accounts Majority Minorities Majority And Minority

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.”

People World Way Want Wells Kind Persons Interest Justice Views Principles Knowing Atheism Effects Depends Morality Truth Is Accounts Atheist Well Being Justify Dedicated Live Your Life

Author:Steven Pinker

“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.”

Justice Position Diversity Accounts Absolutes Social Justice Relative Observers Measurement

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”

Source: On Social Structure and Science

“[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.”

Should Sometimes Law Science Order Social Born Justice Mankind Dangerous Ignorance Accounts Relation Errors Ignorant Deceiving Maxims Social Order True Relation

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace