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

1.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

2.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

4.

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

Epicurus

5.

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

6.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

7.

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

Domitus Ulpian

8.

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

Barbara Hall

9.

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

Darrow, Clarence

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

13.

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

Mansfield, Lord

14.

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

15.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Weil, Simone

17.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Hellman, Lillian

19.

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

Epicurus

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Diderot, Denis

23.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

24.

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

25.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

26.

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

Abraham Lincoln

27.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

28.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

29.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

Terence

31.

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

32.

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

Junius

33.

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

Wells, Ida B.

34.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

35.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

39.

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

Vance, Michael

40.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Heraclitus

44.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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