Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

2.

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

Earl Warren

3.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

4.

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

5.

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

Darrow, Clarence

6.

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

Butler, Samuel

7.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

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

Mansfield, Lord

11.

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

Domitus Ulpian

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Kevin Bacon

15.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

16.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

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

18.

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

Abraham Lincoln

19.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

20.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

Heraclitus

22.

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

Diderot, Denis

23.

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

Defoe, Daniel

24.

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

25.

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

Hellman, Lillian

26.

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

27.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

29.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

30.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Democritus

35.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

36.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

37.

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

38.

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

Epicurus

39.

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

Vance, Michael

40.

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

Barbara Hall

41.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

42.

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.

43.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

44.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

46.

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