Justice Quotes
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
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
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
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
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
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.John Berge
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
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
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
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
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
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
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.Italian Prove
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
Never be indiferent to injustice.Esnesto "Che" Guevara
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
Justice is incedental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
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
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
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".
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
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
