Motivational Quotes

Justice

The foundation of justice is good faith.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

3.

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

Junius

4.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

5.

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

Weil, Simone

6.

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

7.

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

Terence

8.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

9.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Darrow, Clarence

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

Epicurus

15.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

16.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Diderot, Denis

20.

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

21.

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

Democritus

22.

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

Cioran, E. M.

23.

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

Abraham Lincoln

24.

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

Valery, Paul

25.

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

26.

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

Vance, Michael

27.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

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

Russell, Foster M.

31.

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

Earl Warren

32.

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

Epicurus

33.

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

Defoe, Daniel

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

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

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

41.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

42.

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

Mansfield, Lord

43.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

44.

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

Domitus Ulpian

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Heraclitus

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

Wells, Ida B.

50.

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