Justice Quotes

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

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

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Ferdinand I

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

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

George W. Bush

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

Clarence Darrow

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

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

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

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

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

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Justice is incedental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove