Justice (n.) is an invention of the powerless who are unable to make their own revenge. It is senseless, because man is never accountable. Thus, if justice is to consist in giving to each what is his own, then no one can be punished and no-one rewarded.
Justice (n.) is insofar as justice means giving to each what is his own, groundless and senseless in that it assumes that people are responsible for their actions and the consequences of those actions.
Justice (n.) is structured by gift-giving, where the relationship between the self and the other is not symmetrical. Giving is making an acknowledgement of the distance and difference between the self and the other.
Justice (n.) is love that isn't blind.
Justice (n.) is wrongly seen to be about equality. Rather, true justice is about being equal to the equal, and unequal to the unequal. We should never make equal what is unequal.
Justice (n.) is the unfathomable ocean in which the highest and rarest virtues are united and concealed; the just man is a poor human being tragically consumed by an impossible virtue.
Justice (n.) historical, even when genuine, is a dreadful virtue: it destroys the illusions in whose atmosphere alone things can live, and its judgment is always annihilating.
Justice (n.) originates between parties of roughly equal power: exchange and requital where a fight would only injure both — revenge and gratitude belong to it originally.
Justice (n.) its genius is no lower than any other — it wants to give each thing its due, sets everything in the best light, and in the end gives even blind conviction its due, for the sake of truth.
Justice (n.) is so often a cloak for weakness — and weak, fair-minded men sometimes act harshly on purpose to leave an impression of strength.
Justice (n.) cold, has the executioner and his steel gazing out of the judges' eyes; the justice worth inventing is love with seeing eyes.
Justice (n.) in some mouths, "I am just" always sounds like "I am just avenged!"
Justice (n.) to the tarantulas, means the world filled with the thunderstorms of their revenge.
Justice (n.) is the name an aristocratic commonwealth gives to its intolerance.
Justice (n.) would really say: equality for the equal, inequality for the unequal — and never make the unequal equal.
Justice (n.) is will to power — the drives morality praises are essentially the same as those it defames.
Justice (n.) is a development of the drive to revenge.
Justice (n.) should not hold the scales but stand at their centre keeping the pans balanced — and she never says 'to each his due', only 'tit for tat'.
Justice (n.) which morality praises, turns out to be the same drive it slanders — will to power.