Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Epicurus

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Earl Warren

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

Barbara Hall

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Democritus

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Junius

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Vance, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Aristotle

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.