Justice Quotes
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
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.
Never be indiferent to injustice.Esnesto "Che" Guevara
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
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.
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
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
The sword of justice has no scabbard.Antione De Riveral
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai Stevenson
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
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.Ann Landers
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
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
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
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
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.
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
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
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
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is incedental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
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
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
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.Plato
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
