Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 10
Recompense injury with justice and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
John Jay Hooker
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
David Herbert Lawrence
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Horace
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
Joel Osteen
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.
Georges Bernanos
If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
Norman Borlaug
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Adolf Hitler
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Thomas Jefferson
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes … If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.
Medea Benjamin
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Plato
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Aristotle
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
Norman Borlaug
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world’s peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it – that is true civilization.
Hideki Tojo
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