Justice Quotes
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
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
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
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
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.Benjamin Franklin
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.
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
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
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.Clarence Darrow
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.Albert Camus
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.Adlai Stevenson
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
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
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
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
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
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)
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
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
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
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
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
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.Earl Warren
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
Comedy is allied to justice.Aristophenes
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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".
