Motivational Quotes

Justice

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Justice

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

Luther, Martin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Epicurus

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

Bacon, Francis

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Wells, Ida B.

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

Hellman, Lillian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Barbara Hall

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

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

Terence

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

Vance, Michael

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

Horace

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

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

Darrow, Clarence

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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Domitus Ulpian

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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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The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

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

Mansfield, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

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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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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Democritus

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

Earl Warren

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

Seneca

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De