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Delay in justice is injustice.


Walter Savage Landor
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
Joan Halifax
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.


Mary Catherine Bateson
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.


Joyce Carol Oates
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.


Benazir Bhutto
I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.
Nicola Sturgeon
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
Eyvind Johnson
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But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
Lee H. Hamilton
It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.
Cesare Beccaria
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.


Robert Fripp
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.


John Rawls
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.


Henry Rollins
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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Stewart Udall
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.


Carl Jung
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.


William Feather
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.


A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
Nigel Lawson