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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
– Reinhold Niebuhr

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  2. The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  3. Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  4. I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  5. Forgiveness is the final form of love. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  6. Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  7. Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer. – Reinhold Niebuhr
  8. Choice of justice is better than injustice if even you got hold of the injustice it from any since that since is nonsense. – MRishad Sakhi
  9. When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty. – Israelmore Ayivor
  10. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
  11. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
  12. A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  13. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  14. Fear makes the possible look impossible;faith makes the impossible, possible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. And be kinder than is necessary. – Dalai Lama XIV
  16. It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
  17. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
  18. Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. – Albert Camus
  19. Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice. – JSB Morse
  20. Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. – Robert G Ingersoll
  21. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. – Samuel Johnson
  22. Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. – Syed Muhammad Naquib alAttas
  23. Right person suffers a lot than wrong person in that place where injustice is called justice. – Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
  24. Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice. – Comte de Lautramont
  25. Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice. – Comte de Lautramont
  26. Justice has a right to protest against injustice. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  27. Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice. – Marty Rubin
  28. I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  29. One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice. – Julian Assange
  30. If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  31. One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. – Franz Kafka
  32. If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all. – Gail Simone
  33. When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive. – Austin Sarat
  34. Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. – George Weigel
  35. The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. – Alfred E Smith
  36. The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
  37. Everybody should be equal in a democracy – that is the nature of a democracy. – Christina Engela
  38. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt
  39. Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more. – Edward Abbey
  40. Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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