Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
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