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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.


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Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
EPICURUS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS This is a prank where no harm was intended or caused. This should be handled administratively and no...
BRYAN WILLIAMS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calcula...
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NEIL GAIMAN The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
EPICURUS To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN He will hurt or harm someone. Each of us believes that justice has been served.
JOE COLLINS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt o...
DAVID RICHO It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We...
BRUCE ANDERSON The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS There is a time when justice delayed can become justice denied. I hope this does not become that kin...
PAUL BURNS Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being h...
EPICTETUS The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and...
ROHINTON MISTRY She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h...
CHIEF JOSEPH If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,
JOHN CONTE At this point, he is not a harm or threat to anyone.
ANNETTE CARNEGIE No one can threaten or harm a federal agent with impunity. Those drug traffickers that threaten our ...
DONNIE MARSHALL I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of th...
PAUL WATSON What kind of justice would you be?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
JEF RASKIN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
KEN SCHOLES If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change...
MARCUS AURELIUS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
HANS FRANK But inevitably, when I can't harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who lov...
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM As you say of yourself, I too am an THOMAS JEFFERSON Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attack...
MITCH ALBOM Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU That kind of approach, which is not based on good information, will cause more harm with no added be...
HELEN PETRAUSKAS Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinc...
WILFRID LAURIER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...
MITCH ALBOM This lady had no intent to harm anyone, or put anyone in any kind of fear. She's under a lot of dure...
NOAH GEARY Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea...
T.S. ELIOT To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Advice to my younger self:

1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hur...
GERMANY KENT Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficien...
BARNEY OLIVER The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.
WILLIAM MASON Love is a spirit all compact of fire
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairl...
STEPHEN CAMBONE Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
P.D. JAMES Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern ...
STEVEN MAGEE Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
LUDWIG VON MISES If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadf...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN A justice delayed will not be a justice denied.
ERIC UELAND Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we h...
GRETA CHRISTINA The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved o...
CRISS JAMI Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
GEORGE W. BUSH Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but ineffi...
BARNEY OLIVER I don't really know what I'm going to do, ... What kind of a justice would you be, John Roberts?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN I am a priest, but in this war I have been a soldier, and a soldier who has not surrendered. For I w...
ETTA SHIBER We are happy the girl is going to get some kind of justice.
KATRINA LEGARDA Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind
MARGARET OLIPHANT It is as big as a CD (compact disc). They seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
CINDY KLASSEN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We'v...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost ...
ERIC HOLDER Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To enjoy the true beauty of life, be kind to yourself.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. [The Zeroth L...
ISAAC ASIMOV The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, com...
THOMAS STOCKMAN It makes a mockery of any kind of system of justice.
CURT GOERING Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don'...
T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't...
T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
T. S. ELIOT Our intent is to continue to seek ratification of the compact.
VINCE SOLLITTO Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, t...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whet...
ADAM LEVIN Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any bet...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We are being harmed because our government is not functioning at 100 percent.
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