Justice Quotes

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)
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.
Andrew Jackson
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Prove
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
Chekov of tolstoy - reason and justice tell me that there is more...
Thomas jefferson - i believe that justice is instinct and innate,...
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
Eleanor roosevelt - justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be...
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
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
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
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley
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.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
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
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophenes
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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
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
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
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
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
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.
Brian K. Blackden, 1996
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart
There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman
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