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    William Penn
    “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: justice
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.”
    ― Ronald Reagan, The Quest for Peace, The Cause of Freedom
    tags: cooperation, freedom, good-will, justice, liberty
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    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: disgrace, honor, justice, society, wealth
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    Brent Weeks
    “There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. ”
    ― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
    tags: justice
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    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: fairness, goodness, justice
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: bad-laws, catholic, catholic-author, christian, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, error, error-and-truth, evil-laws, gadfly, hard-truths, justice, justice-system, law, laws, morality, morals, philosophical, politics, referrendum, right-and-wrong, truth, voting, votings, wisdom
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    Alan M. Dershowitz
    “Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
    ― Alan Dershowitz
    tags: constitution, freedom, gun-rights, guns, justice, politics, second-amendment
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    Jean Rhys
    “Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”
    ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
    tags: justice
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    W.S. Gilbert
    “I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
    ― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
    tags: acting, injustice, justice, life, reality, theater
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    H.G. Wells
    “A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: justice, war
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    Jane Addams
    “True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
    ― Jane Addams
    tags: justice, peace
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    John Marshall
    “The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”
    ― John Marshall
    tags: constitution, equality, justice, law
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    Thucydides
    “Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: justice
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    Allan Pinkerton
    “Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.”
    ― Allan Pinkerton
    tags: crime, justice, law
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: equality, justice
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    John Marshall
    “The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.”
    ― John Marshall
    tags: courts, guilt, innocence, justice, law, legality, trial
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    Vladimir Levshin
    “Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional”
    ― Russian, Unknown
    tags: justice, mental-health, russians, truth, ussr
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring
    tags: healing, justice, manwë, silmarillion, valar
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    James Mace
    “Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.”
    ― James Mace, Soldier of Rome: The Legionary
    tags: justice, revenge
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    Ansel Adams
    “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
    ― Ansel Adams
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: beauty, photography, portraits
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    Dorothea Lange
    “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
    ― Dorothea Lange
    tags: life, photography
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Kate Morton
    “It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
    ― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
    tags: art, past, photography
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    Susan Sontag
    “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
    tags: cameras, photography
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    Ansel Adams
    “To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: landscape, landscapes, photography
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    Ansel Adams
    “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Henri Cartier-Bresson
    “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
    ― Henri Cartier-Bresson
    tags: art, perseverance, photography
    522 likes



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