Justice Quotes

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Patrick Stewart

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

Lenny Bruce

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Bruce Cockburn

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Thucyclides

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau

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

Demosthenes

If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.

Pan Ku

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

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

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

George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

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

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

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

Barry Goldwate

The more laws, the less justice.

Cicero

Never be indiferent to injustice.

Esnesto "Che" Guevara

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D. C., 1865