Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Domitus Ulpian

Best Quotes about Justice

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Wells, Ida B.

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

Terence

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Weil, Simone

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

Butler, Samuel

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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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Seneca

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Heraclitus

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Russell, Foster M.

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Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Mansfield, Lord

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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men

Epicurus

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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Domitus Ulpian

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

Kevin Bacon

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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

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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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Horace

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Bacon, Francis

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Junius

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Democritus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Epicurus

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

Barbara Hall

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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Vance, Michael