Quotes about justice

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

— Samuel Butler

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.

— Albert Camus

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

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

— E. M. Cioran

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

— Democritus

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

— Lillian Hellman

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

— Horace

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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.

— Robert F. Kennedy

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.

— John Stuart Mill

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!

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Michael Vance

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

— Simone Weil

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

— Ida B. Wells

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.

— Maria Corazon Aquino

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

— Aristotle

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Francis Bacon

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

— Alice Stone Blackwell

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

— Linda Blandford

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

— Lenny Bruce

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

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

The essence of justice is mercy.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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 foundation of justice is good faith.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Daniel Defoe

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

— Denis Diderot

Justice is truth in action.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

— William O. Douglas

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

— Epicurus

Every offense is avenged on earth.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Justice is incidental to law and order.

— J. Edgar Hoover

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

— Horace

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Junius

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

— Walter Savage Landor

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

— Vachel Lindsay

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

— Martin Luther

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

— Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

— Roman Maxim

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

— Edwin Meese

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

— H. L. Mencken

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

— Hebrew Proverb

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

— Foster M. Russell

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

— Seneca

Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

— William Shakespeare

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

— Socrates

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

— Gloria Steinem

He who spares the bad injures the good.

— Publilius Syrus

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

— Publilius Syrus

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

— Terence

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

— Paul Valery

I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against.

— Malcolm X

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

— Bryant McGill

It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it. - Nabil N. Jamal

— Nabil N. Jamal

We human are only just as tiny as dust on earth. Life is fragile, helpless and variable sometimes. Still, we have to put our hearts at the right place and have a sense of justice always !

— Mak Kazeronnie

The country has no future without Freedom and Justice.

— Mak Kazeronnie

No matter what you believe in or you believe in nothing. Still, you should put your heart at the right place and have a sense of Justice ! These are the basic principles of human beings

— Mak Kazeronnie

If the freedom and justice are only owned by a few privileged persons, the whole nation will never have the real Freedom and Justice at all.

— Mak Kazeronnie

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— King Jr. Martin Luther