Quotes about justice

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

Butler, Samuel on justice   

"Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world."

Camus, Albert on justice   

"When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor."

Carlyle, Jane Welsh on justice   

"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

Cioran, E. M. on justice
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."

Democritus on justice   

"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"

Hellman, Lillian on justice   

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

Horace on justice
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Jefferson, Thomas on justice   

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."

Kennedy, Robert F. on justice   

"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."

Mill, John Stuart on justice   

"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"

Reagan, Ronald on justice   

"The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family"

Vance, Michael on justice
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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

Weil, Simone on justice
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"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Wells, Ida B. on justice   

"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."

Aquino, Maria Corazon on justice   

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

Aristotle on justice   

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"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."

Atwood, Margaret on justice   

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

Bacon, Francis on justice
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"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both."

Blackwell, Alice Stone on justice   

"Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality."

Blandford, Linda on justice   

"In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls."

Bruce, Lenny on justice   

"We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on justice   

"The essence of justice is mercy."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on justice   

"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."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."

Cicero, Marcus T. on justice   

"Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense."

Cicero, Marcus T. on justice   

"There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court."

Darrow, Clarence on justice   

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."

Defoe, Daniel on justice   

"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."

Diderot, Denis on justice   

"Justice is truth in action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on justice
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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

Douglas, William O. on justice
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men"

Epicurus on justice   

"Every offense is avenged on earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on justice   

"A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on justice   

"Justice is incidental to law and order."

Hoover, J. Edgar on justice   

"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."

Horace on justice
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"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on justice   

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

Junius on justice   

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

Landor, Walter Savage on justice