Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Justice

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Horace

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Junius

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Barbara Hall

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

Heraclitus

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

Democritus

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Epicurus

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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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.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Seneca

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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