Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Heraclitus

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

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

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Heraclitus

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Terence

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Vance, Michael

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Aristotle

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Barbara Hall

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

Democritus

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Earl Warren

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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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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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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