Justice Quotes

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

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

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)

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

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, The Republic

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

George W. Bush

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

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

The more laws, the less justice.

Cicero

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

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

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren