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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.


Epicurus

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LYSANDER SPOONER Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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AMBROSE BIERCE He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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LAURA WASSER He's paying the amount that's on his lease. He entered into that contract of free will.
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And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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JOHN CONNOLLY War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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CARLA DEL PONTE There is no justice among men.
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DEYTH BANGER Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
JAMES WEBB a history of harming kidnapped sailors.
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JANE RULE Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
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LYSANDER SPOONER Custom adapts itself to expediency
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TACITUS justice is finally being served.
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