Justice Quotes

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

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

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

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

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD - ROM)

Justice is incedental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoove

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

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

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

George W. Bush

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

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

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.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

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.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Thomas H. Huxley

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

Magna Carta

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

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.

Seneca

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)

The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold