Quotes on Justice

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Author: Lord Acton

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Author: Aeschylus

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Author: Kemal Ataturk

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Author: Margaret Atwood

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Author: Saint Augustine

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Author: Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Author: Francis Bacon

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Author: Bugs Baer

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

Author: Birch Bayh

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Author: Glenn Beck

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Author: Arnold Bennett

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Author: Michael Bennett

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Author: Julian Bond

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Author: Omar Bongo

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Empathy is not just about standing in someone else's shoes, it's about walking side by side with them.

Author: Bryan Stevenson

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Author: Lenny Bruce

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Author: Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Author: Edmund Burke

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Author: Richard Burton

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Author: Anselm Canterbury

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Author: Lois Capps

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Author: Benjamin Cardozo

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Author: Raymond Chandler

The essence of justice is mercy.

Author: Edwin Chapin

The more laws, the less justice.

Author: Marcus Cicero

More law, less justice.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Author: Charles Colton

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Author: Mason Cooley

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

Author: Thomas Cromwell

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Author: Clarence Darrow

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

Author: Phyllis Diller

Justice is horrible.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Author: Meister Eckhart

We've begun to get justice.

Author: Charles Evers

Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Author: Ferdinand Ferdinand I

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

Author: Just Fontaine

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Author: William Gaddis

The big tyrants never face justice.

Author: George Galloway

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Author: William Gladstone

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

Author: Matt Gonzalez

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

Author: Harold Greene

Thou shalt not ration justice.

Author: Learned Hand

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Author: Heraclitus

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Author: William Hocking

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Author: J. Hoover

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Author: Billy Hughes

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Author: Claudio Hummes

Using your voice to break the silence is a powerful act of resistance against oppression.

Author: Malala Yousafzai

As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.

Author: Denis Kearney

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

Author: Imran Khan

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.

Author: Karl Kraus

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Author: Lactantius

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

Author: Ricardo Lagos

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Author: Anna Lindh

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Author: William McIlvanney

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

Author: Mario Monti

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

Author: J. Morton

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

Author: Robert Mueller

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

Author: Ted Olson

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Author: Pope Paul II

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Author: William Penn

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

Author: Frederick Pollock

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Author: Jane Quinn

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Author: Charles Richter

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

Author: Pat Roberts

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Author: Elihu Root

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Author: Alain Sage

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all".

Author: Pat Schroeder

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

Author: Bill Scott

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Author: Charles Secondat

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Author: Isaac Singer

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

Author: Curtis Sliwa

There is no truly global justice.

Author: Ralph Steadman

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Author: Ralph Steadman

Law and justice are not always the same.

Author: Gloria Steinem

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Author: Potter Stewart

Fairness is what justice really is.

Author: Potter Stewart

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Author: Algernon Sydney

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Author: William Thackeray

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

Author: Gijs Vries

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Author: Terry Waite

No one could, therefore, rely on the law, and justice no longer existed.

Author: William Waller

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Author: Earl Warren

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Author: Diane Watson

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Author: Jessamyn West

Wisdom is not in doing what is easy, but in persevering to do what is right, even when it's hard.

Author: Angela Davis

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

Author: Fay Wray

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

Author: Malcolm X

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Author: Malcolm X

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Author: Gloria Steinem

Don't settle for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Author: Nelson Mandela

Just because something is common, doesn't mean it's right.

Author: Michelle Obama

True freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, but the courage to stand up for what you believe in.

Author: Angela Davis

We are not defined by our circumstances, but by our responses to them.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

Justice is the light that guides us through darkness to a better tomorrow.

Author: Sarah Smith

In the fight for justice, our voices are our most powerful weapons.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

The sweetest sound is the breaking of a heart standing up for what is right.

Author: Sophia Lopez

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Author: Jane Doe

The strongest wills are often born from turbulent trials.

Author: Phoenix Wright

Be bold enough to speak truth, humble enough to listen, and courageous enough to stand up for justice.

Author: Emily Lawson

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the voice of reason is mightier than both.

Author: Samantha Jones

Power is not given, it is taken.

Author: Sophia Wilson

Knowledge is power, but empathy is strength.

Author: Olivia Benson

Wisdom is knowing when the scales of justice need to be balanced, and the courage to make it happen.

Author: Maria Johnson

Change starts with action, not just words.

Author: Vanessa Hughes

Just because you have the power, doesn't mean you have the right.

Author: Carmen Rodriguez

Do not be afraid to speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

Author: Emily Greene

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Author: William Faulkner

All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others.

Author: George Orwell

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.

Author: Edmund Burke

How can we expect righteousness from others if we ourselves are full of wickedness?

Author: Malala Yousafzai