Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 6
Justice is superior to injustice.
Plato
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
Lord Mansfield
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Mortimer Adler
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Jessamyn West
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
James Madison
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil Gibran
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
Albert Einstein
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal
The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikes. With the sword of justice.
John Webster
Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. Philip Randolph
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler
Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Elbert Hubbard
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Robert Browning
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
Bill Moyers
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
If it doen’t make sense, you should find for the defense.
Johnnie Cochran
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
Jack Kornfield
This is not about charity, it’s about justice… The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty – I didn’t say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it’s cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.
Bono
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