Justice Quotes
Each time someone 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.Robert F. Kennedy
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
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
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
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
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.
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.Ann Landers
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
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
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Justice delayed is justice denied.William Gladstone
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.Thomas Jefferson
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.Benjamin Disraeli
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.Arcesilaus
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
