Justice Quotes

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never be indiferent to injustice.

Esnesto "Che" Guevara

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

Justice is incedental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

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

Plato

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

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Samuel Johnson

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Justice is incidental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Seneca

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

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

Magna Carta

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

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

Lenny Bruce

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

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

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

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

Aristotle

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

Earl Warren

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Charles Stanton

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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

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

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

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

Francis Bacon