Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

Best Quotes about Justice

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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

2.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

3.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

4.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

Diderot, Denis

8.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

10.

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

Domitus Ulpian

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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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

15.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

16.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

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

Junius

18.

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

Barbara Hall

19.

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

20.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

21.

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

Vance, Michael

22.

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

Seneca

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

Defoe, Daniel

24.

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

Terence

25.

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

Kevin Bacon

26.

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

27.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Russell, Foster M.

30.

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

Weil, Simone

31.

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

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Wells, Ida B.

35.

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

Darrow, Clarence

36.

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

Epicurus

37.

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

Heraclitus

38.

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

Hellman, Lillian

39.

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

Abraham Lincoln

40.

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

41.

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

Mansfield, Lord

42.

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.

43.

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

Earl Warren

44.

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

Horace

45.

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

Epicurus

46.

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