Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Junius

Best Quotes about Justice

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Terence

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

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Junius

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Russell, Foster M.

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

Horace

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Vance, Michael

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

Barbara Hall

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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

25.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Heraclitus

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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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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Mansfield, Lord

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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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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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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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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Epicurus

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

Earl Warren

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Democritus

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Cioran, E. M.