Justice Quotes

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
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 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
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Ferdinand I
Samuel johnson - an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere....
Thomas h. huxley - the world makes up for all its follies and...
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.
Thomas Fulle
Frederick douglass, speech, april 1886 - where justice is denied, where poverty is...
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
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
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
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
Bruce Cockburn
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
Plato
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
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
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
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
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophenes
Nobody wants justice.
Alan Dershowitz
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
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.
Jeseph Joubert
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)
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.