Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Domitus Ulpian

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

Epicurus

3.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

4.

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

Abraham Lincoln

5.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

6.

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

7.

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

Vance, Michael

8.

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

Weil, Simone

9.

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

Barbara Hall

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

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

Defoe, Daniel

14.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

15.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

16.

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

Wells, Ida B.

17.

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

Hellman, Lillian

18.

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

Domitus Ulpian

19.

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

20.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

21.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

22.

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

Cioran, E. M.

23.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

24.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Terence

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Kevin Bacon

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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.

36.

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

Earl Warren

37.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Epicurus

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mansfield, Lord

43.

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

Democritus

44.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

45.

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