Justice Quotes

Nobody wants justice.
Alan Dershowitz
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
George w. bush - whether we bring our enemies to justice, or...
John berge - we can become anything. that is why injustice is...
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Ferdinand I
Frederick douglass, speech, april 1886 - where justice is denied, where poverty is...
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
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
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.
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".
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William Gladstone
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Daniel Defoe
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
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
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Samuel Johnson
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
Frederick Douglas
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
W. H. Auden
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
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
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
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
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu, 1742
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Prove
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.
Pan Ku
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