Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Earl Warren

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

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

Diderot, Denis

2.

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

Weil, Simone

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

5.

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.

6.

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

Darrow, Clarence

7.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

Barbara Hall

10.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

13.

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

Epicurus

14.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

15.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

16.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

Valery, Paul

18.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Domitus Ulpian

21.

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

Russell, Foster M.

22.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wells, Ida B.

26.

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

Heraclitus

27.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

29.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

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

Terence

31.

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

Earl Warren

32.

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

Kevin Bacon

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Mansfield, Lord

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

Epicurus

37.

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

38.

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

Horace

39.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

Vance, Michael

41.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

43.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

44.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

45.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

46.

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

47.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

48.

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

49.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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