Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Wells, Ida B.

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Horace

2.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

4.

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

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

8.

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

Terence

9.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

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

Kevin Bacon

11.

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

Diderot, Denis

12.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

13.

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

Wells, Ida B.

14.

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

15.

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

Vance, Michael

16.

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

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

19.

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

Defoe, Daniel

20.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

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

Junius

24.

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

Hellman, Lillian

25.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Luther, Martin

28.

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

29.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

30.

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

Epicurus

31.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Heraclitus

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Abraham Lincoln

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

Mansfield, Lord

39.

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

40.

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

Domitus Ulpian

41.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

43.

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

Weil, Simone

44.

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

Valery, Paul

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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

47.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

49.

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

50.

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.