Justice Quotes

Nobody wants justice.
Alan Dershowitz
J. edgar hoove - justice is incedental to law and order....
Albert camus - a slave begins by demanding justice and ends by...
Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Samuel smiles - it is possible that the scrupulously honest man...
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
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
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
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.
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
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.
Kahlil Gibran
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu, 1742
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt
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
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.
Jeseph Joubert
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
Bill Chickering
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 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)
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld