One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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.
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Justice is truth in action.
Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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