Justice Quotes

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
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)
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley
Martin luther king jr. - segregation is the adultery of an illicit...
Samuel johnson - an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere....
Justice is incedental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
Dante alighieri - through me you pass into the city of woethrough...
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
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
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu, 1742
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
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
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
Malcolm De Chazal
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
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
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.
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frdric Amiel
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
La Rochefoucauld
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophenes
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton