Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

3.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

5.

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

Heraclitus

6.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

7.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

8.

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

Earl Warren

9.

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

10.

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

Junius

11.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

15.

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

Russell, Foster M.

16.

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

Domitus Ulpian

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

19.

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

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Terence

23.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

24.

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

Defoe, Daniel

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

Weil, Simone

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Barbara Hall

32.

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

Wells, Ida B.

33.

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

Valery, Paul

34.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

37.

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

Diderot, Denis

38.

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

39.

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

Mansfield, Lord

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

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

Hellman, Lillian

42.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

43.

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

Kevin Bacon

44.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

45.

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

Vance, Michael

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

50.

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.