Justice Quotes

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.

Patrick Stewart

The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Thomas Fulle

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

Arcesilaus

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

John Berge

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

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

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.

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, The Republic

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

Daniel Defoe

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

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

The more laws, the less justice.

Cicero

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

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

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

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

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

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

George W. Bush

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

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

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