Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

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

Aristotle

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

Epicurus

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Earl Warren

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Proverb, Hebrew

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hellman, Lillian

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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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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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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

Vance, Michael

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

Horace

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