Justice Quotes
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 everywhere.Martin Luther King
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
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
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.Robert F. Kennedy
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
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.Plato
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.Lenny Bruce
The sword of justice has no scabbard.Antione De Riveral
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
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
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
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.Friedrich August von Hayek
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
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
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but 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 to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
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
