Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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 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

3.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

4.

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

Defoe, Daniel

5.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

6.

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.

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

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

Diderot, Denis

9.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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

11.

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

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

13.

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

Earl Warren

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Domitus Ulpian

16.

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

Heraclitus

17.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

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

Vance, Michael

20.

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

Wells, Ida B.

21.

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

Valery, Paul

22.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

23.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

24.

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

Democritus

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

Russell, Foster M.

27.

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

Kevin Bacon

28.

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

Epicurus

29.

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

Terence

30.

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

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

33.

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

Mansfield, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

Horace

36.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

38.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

39.

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

Junius

40.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

43.

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

Epicurus

44.

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

Weil, Simone

45.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

49.

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

50.

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

Abraham Lincoln