Blaise Pascal Quotes About Justice
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Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
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Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
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The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
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If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.
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The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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