Justice Quotes and Sayings

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
Sargent Shriver

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.
Welsh Proverb

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

The poverty and long suffering of farmers and indigenous peoples that I have seen has planted in me the principle that justice must be fought for them.
Dewi Rana Amir

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
Emma Goldman

Love is stronger than justice.
Sting

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I’m just trying to do the right thing.
Tracey Gold

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Charles Churchill

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Michael Harrington

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton

We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
Hierocles

Every offense is avenged on earth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
Don Mashak

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
Anonymous

There is no justice among men.
Nicholas II

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Lysander Spooner

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction — but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.
Mahnaz Afkhami

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
Winston Churchill

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security
of innocence.
Adam Smith

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Bible

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug

If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet—and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually—then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.
Brother Wayne Teasdale