Justice Quotes
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
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
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
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.
Nobody wants justice.Alan Dershowitz
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
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
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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
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
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
The more laws, the less justice.Cicero
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 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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.Thomas Jefferson
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.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
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
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
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Origen
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
