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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

— Khalil Gibran

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The big tyrants never face justice.

— George Galloway

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

— Teju Cole

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

— Hesiod

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

— Maximilien Robespierre

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

— Benjamin Tucker

Justice is never given; it is exacted.

— A. Philip Randolph

Justice is revenge.

— Saad Hariri

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

— J. Edgar Hoover

✗Opposing Perspectives

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

— Joseph Addison