Justice Quotes

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

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Ferdinand I

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

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.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Italian Prove

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Thomas Fulle

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

Barry Goldwate

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Bruce Cockburn

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

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

George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - Denouncing the evils of slavery

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

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.

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

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow