Justice Quotes
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
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
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
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
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Origen
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
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
Never be indiferent to injustice.Esnesto "Che" Guevara
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
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
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
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai Stevenson
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Sallust
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 delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
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
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King
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.
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
