Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

John Galsworthy
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  2. Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. - Cornel West

  3. Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. - Iain Pears

  4. Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice. - Michael J. Sandel

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More Quotes By John Galsworthy
  1. Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

  2. Life calls the tune, we dance.

  3. It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

  4. Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge...

  5. Really, " said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

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