Motivational Quotes

Justice

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

Cioran, E. M.

5.

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

6.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

7.

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

Weil, Simone

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

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

Hellman, Lillian

14.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

15.

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

Domitus Ulpian

16.

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

Mansfield, Lord

17.

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

Russell, Foster M.

18.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

19.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Defoe, Daniel

21.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Seneca

23.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

24.

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

Epicurus

25.

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

26.

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

Barbara Hall

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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

28.

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

Earl Warren

29.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

32.

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

Darrow, Clarence

33.

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

Junius

34.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Epicurus

36.

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

Diderot, Denis

37.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

38.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

39.

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

Vance, Michael

40.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

41.

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

Heraclitus

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Horace

46.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.