Justice Quotes

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Magna Carta

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. 1966.

Charles Stanton

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William Gladstone

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

Chekov of Tolstoy

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".

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

There is no such thing as justice - - In or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Albert Camus

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

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

George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

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

Seneca

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Ferdinand I

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu, 1742

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty.

Jeseph Joubert

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwate

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Demosthenes

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

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

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

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

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