Motivational Quotes

Justice

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Justice

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Wells, Ida B.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epicurus

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man 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 those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Defoe, Daniel

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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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

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True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

Mansfield, Lord

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Diderot, Denis

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Cioran, E. M.

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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Camus, Albert

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

Russell, Foster M.

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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Steinem, Gloria

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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men

Epicurus

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

Aristotle

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

Earl Warren

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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Hellman, Lillian

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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Reagan, Ronald

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Bacon, Francis

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Valery, Paul

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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Terence

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

Barbara Hall

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

Domitus Ulpian

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Luther, Martin

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Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

Shakespeare, William

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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Lindsay, Vachel

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The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family

Vance, Michael

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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life.

Jonathan Haidt

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Weil, Simone

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There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

Darrow, Clarence