Motivational Quotes

Justice

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Justice

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Reagan, Ronald

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Junius

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Luther, Martin

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

Mansfield, Lord

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Kevin Bacon

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Steinem, Gloria

There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

Darrow, Clarence

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

11.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Terence

12.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

13.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Diderot, Denis

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Hellman, Lillian

21.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Churchill, Winston

23.

Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

Shakespeare, William

24.

The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family

Vance, Michael

25.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Lindsay, Vachel

28.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

30.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca

32.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

33.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

34.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Epicurus

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Valery, Paul

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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

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

Barbara Hall

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

44.

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

Russell, Foster M.

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Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

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The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Camus, Albert