Justice Quotes
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.Patrick Stewart
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.Edmund Burke
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?Author Unknown
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
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
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
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
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
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
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.Epicurus
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
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.Magna Carta
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
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
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.Aristotle
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
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
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.Seneca
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Origen
