Justice Quotes

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.

Jeseph Joubert

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Edmund Burke

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 world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

George W. Bush

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

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

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

Magna Carta

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

Justice is incedental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

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

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

Charles Stanton

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu, 1742

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

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

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

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

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

Seneca

Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Malcolm De Chazal

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