This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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

  5. (...) greed that preys on human misery (...) - Michael J. Sandel

More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1. A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

  2. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  3. You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...

  4. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  5. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....

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