Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Horace

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Junius

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

Kevin Bacon

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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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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 sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Terence

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men

Epicurus

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

Barbara Hall

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

Aristotle

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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