Justice Quotes

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Heraclitus

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

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

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

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

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

Plato, The Republic

An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.

John J. Sirica

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

Jeseph Joubert

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

Barry Goldwate

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

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

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 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.

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

Magna Carta

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

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