Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Earl Warren

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Terence

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Seneca

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.

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aristotle

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Domitus Ulpian

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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

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

Barbara Hall

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

Epicurus

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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

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

Junius

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Epicurus

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Russell, Foster M.

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Democritus

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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

Wells, Ida B.

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