Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 8
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
Claudianus
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
Kofi Annan
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
Leonardo Boff
To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it’s my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
Thibault
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.
Muhammad
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
Irene Khan
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice.
Bishop Carlos Belo
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided…No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.
William Watson
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolsto
He who is only just is cruel.
Anonymous
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
Proverb
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt
That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.
Henry George
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.
Otto Bismark
When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists… I always have this thought: If we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Edie Cantor
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
Simone Weil
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Martin Luther King
Whether it makes one cry or sing, justice must be carried out.
Maria
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Ida B. Wells
There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
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