Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Earl Warren

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Valery, Paul

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Hellman, Lillian

10.

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

Heraclitus

11.

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

Epicurus

12.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Earl Warren

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

16.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

17.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Epicurus

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

23.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Democritus

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

Seneca

30.

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

31.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Junius

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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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The foundation of justice is good faith.