The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope
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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 Alexander Pope
  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  2. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

  3. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  4. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

  5. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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