Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 4
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Marcus T. Cicero
The essence of justice is mercy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.
H.L. Mencken
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
Hebrew Proverb
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Equal Justice Under The Law.” That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.
Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
Without justice and love, peace will always be the great illusion.
Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
Marilyn Vos Savant
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe
The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global.
Lula
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau
Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
Edgar Argo
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Voltaire
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.
John Peter Altgeld
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Arthur Baldwin
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich von Schiller
It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.
Aemilius Papinianus
No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
Isaac Rosenfeld
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Gloria Steinem
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