Justice Quotes
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.Miguel De Cervantes
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.Saint Thomas Aquinas
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Sallust
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.Charles Stanton
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
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
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.Friedrich August von Hayek
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
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.Aristotle
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
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
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
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
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
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.Isaac Bashevis Singe
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.Francis Bacon
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
Each time a person 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, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert Francis Kennedy
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
Justice is incidental to law and order.J. Edgar Hoove
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
