Justice Quotes

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

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

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

Arcesilaus

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Plato

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.

Patrick Stewart

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

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Edmund Burke

Each time someone 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.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Barry Goldwate

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

Lenny Bruce

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Ferdinand I

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Clarence Darrow

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato, The Republic

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin