Justice Quotes

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Plato

There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

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

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

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

Never be indiferent to injustice.

Esnesto "Che" Guevara

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.

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

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.

Kahlil Gibran

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.

John J. Sirica

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.

Patrick Stewart

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

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.

Charles Stanton

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)

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

Earl Warren