Justice Quotes
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.Brian K. Blackden, 1996
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
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 America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
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
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
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Sallust
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
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
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
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
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.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
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
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
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 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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
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
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
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.Martin Luther King Jr.
