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One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.
Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Certainly, the fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice.
'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.