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"They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice; --it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; | "They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice; --it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; | ||
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- | "No matter which you chose, you would have borne a sin either way. Those who look away from battle and choose humiliation, | ||
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- | "My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, | ||
- | and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable. | ||
- | reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent | ||
- | to what we do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether or not | ||
- | we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, | ||
- | slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point | ||
- | from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now | ||
- | would be to deny our history, our capabilities. | ||
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- | If your own lie doesn' | ||
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