Justice Quotes
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)
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
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
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
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
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
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
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
Never be indiferent to injustice.Esnesto "Che" Guevara
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.Plato
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.Eleanor Roosevelt
The more laws, the less justice.Cicero
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.Lenny Bruce
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
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.
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Origen
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
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
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
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
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
