George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Justice
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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