Justice Quotes
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
The sword of justice has no scabbard.Antione De Riveral
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
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
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.Lenny Bruce
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
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
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
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
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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
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
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
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
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
