Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Heraclitus

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Seneca

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

Democritus

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

Russell, Foster M.

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The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Kevin Bacon

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Horace

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

Vance, Michael

18.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Barbara Hall

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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 delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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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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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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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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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Junius

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Diderot, Denis

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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