Justice Quotes

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
Samuel smiles - it is possible that the scrupulously honest man...
Montesquieu, 1742 - there is no crueler tyranny than that which is...
Each time someone 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.
Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
John dewey - we cannot seek or attain health, wealth,...
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.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
Plato
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.
Brian K. Blackden, 1996
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Never be indiferent to injustice.
Esnesto "Che" Guevara
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
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
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
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Georges Clemenceau
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt
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
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
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.
Magna Carta
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
There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William Gladstone
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Samuel Johnson
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart
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