Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Wells, Ida B.

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Aristotle

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

Earl Warren

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

Wells, Ida B.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epicurus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Junius

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

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Vance, Michael

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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Epicurus

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Barbara Hall

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Horace

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

Mansfield, Lord

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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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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 is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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

Democritus

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

Russell, Foster M.

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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