Justice Quotes
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
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)
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
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 is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.Domitus Ulpian
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.Malcolm De Chazal
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.Jeseph Joubert
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.Montesquieu, 1742
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 the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
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
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
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
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
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
