Justice Quotes
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
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.
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
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
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
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
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
Never be indiferent to injustice.Esnesto "Che" Guevara
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.Montesquieu, 1742
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.Domitus Ulpian
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
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai Stevenson
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
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
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.Albert Einstein
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
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
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
