Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 7
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Bible
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan
In justice is all virtues found in sum.
Aristotle
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Montesquieu
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
Lech Walesa
It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems … However, with faith and perseverance, … complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.
Jimmy Carter
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cicero
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honoré de Balzac
God’s justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
Sir Thomas More
A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.
Mark Twain
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
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