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Justice   /dʒˈəstəs/  /dʒˈəstɪs/   Listen
Justice

noun
1.
The quality of being just or fair.  Synonym: justness.  Antonym: injustice.
2.
Judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments.
3.
A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice.  Synonyms: judge, jurist.
4.
The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870.  Synonyms: Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Department.



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"Justice" Quotes from Famous Books



... chiefly for the sake and the security of those he misled. Something there is to look to, Yorke, beyond a man's personal interest, beyond the advancement of well-laid schemes, beyond even the discharge of dishonouring debts. To respect himself, a man must believe he renders justice to his fellow-men. Unless I am more considerate to ignorance, more forbearing to suffering, than I have hitherto been, I shall scorn myself as grossly unjust.—What now?" he said, addressing his horse, which, hearing the ripple of water, ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... first and acquitted, the verdict of the jury being 'not guilty, according to the evidence before us.' The Ann. Reg. xviii. 231, adds:—'There were the loudest applauses on this acquittal almost ever known in a court of justice.' 'The issue of Mrs. Rudd's trial was thought to involve the fate of the Perreaus; and the popular fancy had taken the part of the woman as against the men.' They were convicted and hanged, protesting their innocence. Letters of Boswell, pp. 223-230. Boswell wrote to Temple on April 28:—'You ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... requires it; and, as a man of honour, I accept the challenge. If you, my good mother, should have cause to weep, it is better that you should shed tears for a son worthy of yourself than to shed them for a coward. I go to the combat in the spirit of a man who is calm and sure of himself. Justice is on my side. ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... getting across the continent and back that gave the work its character, but the observations that were made by the way. A book of this size would not contain a bare catalogue of the deeds and discoveries of those twenty-eight months; nor could any number of volumes do full justice to their importance. Whoever reads the journals, from whatever point of view, is amazed by what they reveal. Geographers, ethnologists, botanists, geologists, Indian traders, and men of affairs, all are of one mind upon this point. We must ...
— Lewis and Clark - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark • William R. Lighton

... "'Justice!' he sneered. 'You are old enough to realize that it is but an empty name. What could a defenceless woman, without means to help herself, do against a man of my wealth and standing. You can effect nothing by braving me. Look at this proposition, as coolly as possible, ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock


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