Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Earl Warren

2.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

4.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

5.

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

6.

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

Vance, Michael

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

12.

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

Democritus

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Terence

15.

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

Wells, Ida B.

16.

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

17.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Mansfield, Lord

19.

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.

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.

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

Cioran, E. M.

22.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Hellman, Lillian

24.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Valery, Paul

26.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

28.

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

Diderot, Denis

29.

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

Barbara Hall

30.

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

Weil, Simone

31.

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

Russell, Foster M.

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Junius

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

38.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

40.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Domitus Ulpian

43.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

Kevin Bacon

45.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

46.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

47.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

48.

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

Darrow, Clarence

49.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

50.

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