Justice Quotes

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Claude adrien helvetius - there are men whom a happy disposition, a strong...
Plato - justice will only exist where those not affected...
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
Malcolm De Chazal
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
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
W. H. Auden
Robert francis kennedy - each time a person stands up for an ideal, or...
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.
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
Never be indiferent to injustice.
Esnesto "Che" Guevara
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
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".
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwate
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William Gladstone
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.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.
Charles Stanton
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Prove
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
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
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
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865
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
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
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
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
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001