Justice Quotes
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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.
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
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
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
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
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
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
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.Frederick Douglas
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
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.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
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
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
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
Justice is the truth in action.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
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
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".
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Origen
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.Lois McMaster Bujold
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.Montesquieu, 1742
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.Ann Landers
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.George W. Bush
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
