Justice Quotes
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice is incedental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.Jeseph Joubert
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.Albert Einstein
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.William Hazlitt
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai Stevenson
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.Italian Prove
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
