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The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Rebecca West
Law, Justice, Choices
Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

Rebecca West
Mean, Fire, Justice
Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Rebecca West
Civilization, Giving, Justice
1912 'The Personal Service Association: Work for Idle Hands to Do', in The Clarion,13 Dec.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Rebecca West
Justice, Legal System, Steps
Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.40, iUniverse

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