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Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sterner master than any prime minister: it demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and forbids the pleasures of the limelight.

Justice (n.) insists ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on the importance of one middle-aged man with ill-fitting teeth, and leaves in abeyance every grander question — why the Jews, why the Germans, how could it happen.

Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a matter of judgment, but not mercy — and nothing unites public opinion more happily than the conviction that no one has the right to judge anyone else.

Justice (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Clemenceau's words, 'the sole unbreakable bond of union between civilized men' — yet no party, not even the socialists, would stand for it per se.

Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠presented by the courts merely as a substitute for knowing the law — as a sense grounded in every man's heart — on the assumption that the law says only what conscience would say anyhow.