Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Justice

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Barbara Hall

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

Junius

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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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.

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Vance, Michael

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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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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epicurus

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bacon, Francis

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diderot, Denis

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Democritus

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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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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Heraclitus

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Weil, Simone