Motivational Quotes

Justice

He who spares the bad injures the good.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Junius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Valery, Paul

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Cioran, E. M.

14.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

17.

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

18.

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

Diderot, Denis

19.

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

Kevin Bacon

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

22.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

33.

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

34.

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

Terence

35.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

36.

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

37.

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

Earl Warren

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Weil, Simone

41.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

42.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

43.

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