Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 9



If you want peace work for justice.
Pope Paul VI

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus

When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Laurie Anderson

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world’s expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
Pope John Paul II

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
Bishop Desmond Tutu

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
Judge Sturgess

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Justinian I

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice
Jonathan Kozol

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
Kemal Ataturk

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
Josephine Ruffin

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.
George McGovern

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.
Warren Earl Burger

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein

In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
Paul Farmer

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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