Justice Quotes
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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 is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.Clarence Darrow
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.Elizabeth II
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.Italian Prove
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
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 death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.Jeseph Joubert
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
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
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
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
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
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
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
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
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
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
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.Thucyclides
