Justice Quotes
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.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.Daniel Defoe
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.Thomas Fulle
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)
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.Domitus Ulpian
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
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
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.Georges Clemenceau
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.Berthold Auerbach
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.Ferdinand I
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.Jeseph Joubert
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwate
There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.Clarence Darrow
The more laws, the less justice.Cicero
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
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
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
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Justice is the truth in action.Jeseph Joubert
Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.Andrew Jackson
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.Plato
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
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".
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
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
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.William Hazlitt
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.Plato, The Republic
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
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
