Motivational Quotes

Justice

The essence of justice is mercy.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Democritus

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Terence

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Junius

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Weil, Simone

10.

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

11.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Vance, Michael

16.

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Domitus Ulpian

19.

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

Mansfield, Lord

20.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Heraclitus

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

28.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

29.

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

Horace

30.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

31.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

32.

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

Kevin Bacon

33.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epicurus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hellman, Lillian

38.

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

Epicurus

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

44.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Darrow, Clarence

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.