Justice Quotes

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
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
Frederick douglass, speech, april 1886 - where justice is denied, where poverty is...
Martin luther king jr.,
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.
Jeseph Joubert
Theodore roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the theodore roosevelt centennial cd - rom) - justice consists not in being neutral between...
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
Bruce Cockburn
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frdric Amiel
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
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
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
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
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Nobody wants justice.
Alan Dershowitz
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
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
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
Justice is incedental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
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
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai Stevenson
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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
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
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