Motivational Quotes

Justice

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Valery, Paul

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

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

Luther, Martin

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mansfield, Lord

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You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Meese, Edwin

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Vance, Michael

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

Weil, Simone

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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Earl Warren

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

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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

Domitus Ulpian

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Democritus

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Epicurus

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Diderot, Denis

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Butler, Samuel

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

Wells, Ida B.

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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

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

Barbara Hall

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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