Justice Quotes
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
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
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
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
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
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.John Berge
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
Justice delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
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".
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
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
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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
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
The more laws, the less justice.Cicero
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
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
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
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)
