Justice Quotes
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
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
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
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
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
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Heraclitus
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
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
Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert Francis Kennedy
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
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)
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
Justice delayed, is justice denied.William Gladstone
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
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.Edmund Burke
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Compassion is no substitute for justice.Rush Limbaugh
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
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
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
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
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
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
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
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
