Justice Quotes
Justice delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
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
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
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
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
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
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
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
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
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.Lenny Bruce
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.Montesquieu, 1742
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
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.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
