Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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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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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

3.

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

Wells, Ida B.

4.

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

5.

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

Bacon, Francis

6.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

7.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

9.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

10.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

Epicurus

13.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

15.

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

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Cioran, E. M.

18.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

Vance, Michael

22.

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

23.

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

Heraclitus

24.

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

Earl Warren

25.

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

Terence

26.

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

Defoe, Daniel

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

29.

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

Diderot, Denis

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Mansfield, Lord

32.

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

Hellman, Lillian

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Domitus Ulpian

35.

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

Democritus

36.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

37.

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

38.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

39.

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

Valery, Paul

40.

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

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Barbara Hall

44.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Junius

46.

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

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

47.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

Weil, Simone

49.

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

Darrow, Clarence

50.

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

Horace

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