Justice Quotes

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

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

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

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.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

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

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

That the innocent, though they may have some connexion or dependency upon the guilty (which, perhaps, they themselves cannot help), should not, upon that account, suffer or be punished for the guilty, is one of the plainest and most obvious rules of justice.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.