Justice Quotes

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Daniel Defoe

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

Justice is incedental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove

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

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

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, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)

Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.

Brian K. Blackden, 1996

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.

Andrew Jackson

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals