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

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Luther, Martin

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 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

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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

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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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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

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

Vance, Michael

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Epicurus

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

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Earl Warren

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.