Justice Quotes
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
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
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
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
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
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert Francis Kennedy
The sword of justice has no scabbard.Antione De Riveral
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
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
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
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
The more laws, the less justice.Cicero
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.Clarence Darrow
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
You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.Saint Augustine
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.
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.Frederick Douglas
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
