Justice Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Socrates

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
Anatole France

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

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Aristotle

Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle

Justice is incidental to law and order.
John Edgar Hoover

Without justice, courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is having and doing what is one’s own.
Plato

Justice renders to every one his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is justice though it’s always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
George Bernard Shaw

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
Oscar Arias Sanchez

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone

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

Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone

There can’t be peace in the world if there isn’t justice.
Barbara Wiedner

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
Oscar Arias Sanchez

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
Judge Learned Hand

Justice and truth are the common ties of society.
John Locke

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Clarence Darrow