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“But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.”
“Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isnt just for registering pleasure and pain. Its about declaring what is just an...”
“How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.”
“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”
“The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.”
“what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves”
“It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be sti...”
“The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But yo...”
“YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”
“There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.”
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as its poor citizens clamored for a way out. I suggested tha...”
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
“Oh, come on! Percy complained. I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? Thats not fair!”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
“But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”
“Each of us is more than the worst thing weve ever done.”
“Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.”
“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
“There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells...”
