Justice Quotes

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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
Justice is incedental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoove
Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W. Bush
Barry goldwate - extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice....
W. h. auden - acts of injustice done between the setting and...
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
Martin luther king - injustice anywhere is a threat to justice...
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)
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Prove
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 a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Origen
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Seneca
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
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
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
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
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
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
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
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
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel De Cervantes
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
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
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.
Bruce Cockburn
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato, The Republic
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...
Samuel Smiles
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
Malcolm De Chazal
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu, 1742
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
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
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt