Motivational Quotes

Justice

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

- Maxim, Roman

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

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

Hellman, Lillian

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Earl Warren

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

Vance, Michael

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Democritus

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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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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

20.

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

Russell, Foster M.

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Epicurus

30.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Seneca

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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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.