Motivational Quotes

Justice

Every offense is avenged on earth.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Earl Warren

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

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

Vance, Michael

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Terence

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Horace

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

Junius

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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.

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Weil, Simone

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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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 concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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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

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Aristotle

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

Democritus

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

Barbara Hall

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

Valery, Paul

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

Heraclitus

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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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