Justice Quotes

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Samuel Smiles

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

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

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.

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

Chekov of Tolstoy

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu, 1742

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

Magna Carta

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 will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Plato

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus

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

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey