Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Democritus

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

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Kevin Bacon

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Valery, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Junius

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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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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 delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Heraclitus

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

Epicurus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Domitus Ulpian

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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Pope Pius XI

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

Earl Warren

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

Horace

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

Seneca