Justice Quotes

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

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

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.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

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

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

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

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

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

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

George W. Bush

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

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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)

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

Arcesilaus