Justice Quotes

Jeseph joubert - justice is the truth in action....
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
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
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart
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
Lucius annaeus seneca - a kingdom founded on injustice never lasts....
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".
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
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.
Magna Carta
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Samuel Johnson
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
Jeseph joubert - let us have justice, and then we shall have...
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
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
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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
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
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai Stevenson
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
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