Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi
The more laws, the less justice.
Charles Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Winston Churchill
Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.
Edison Haines
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
Jimmy Carter
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.
John Peter Altgeld
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.
Anonymous
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Marian Wright Edelman
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
Linda Blandford
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
George Bernard Shaw
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict Spinoza
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
Norman Bethune
Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.
Mahnaz Afkhami
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
Corazon C. Aquino
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington
Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
St. Thomas Aquinas
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
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