Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, Hebrew

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Aristotle

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Earl Warren

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Vance, Michael

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

Barbara Hall

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

Democritus

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epicurus

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Junius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Mansfield, Lord

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Bacon, Francis