Justice Quotes and Sayings

Peace without justice is tyranny.
William Allen White

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Junius

Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Origen

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine

Justice does not descend from its pinnacle.
Dante Alighieri

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Alice Stone Blackwell

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Woodrow Wilson

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.
William Shakespeare

Justice is a whore that won’t let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.
Karl Kraus

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Ignazio Silone

Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh

No man’s ambitions have a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
John Peter Altgeld

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.
Foster M. Russell

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
George W Bush

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
William Ernest Hocking

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lyn Yutang

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
George Herbert

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal