Justice Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Justice

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The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~


The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
~By Bianca Jagger ~


There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~By Sophocles ~


In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~


Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
~By Arthur Henderson ~


They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
~By Leonard Peltier ~


Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
~By Zebulon Pike ~


Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
~By Plato ~


Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
~By Peter Benenson ~


There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
~By Elie Wiesel ~


So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
~By Hesiod ~


We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.
~By Doc Hastings ~


Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~


When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~


Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
~By Algernon Sidney ~


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


If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
~By Ida B. Wells ~


Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
~By Blaise Pascal ~


Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
~By Saint Augustine ~


Justice is revenge.
~By Saad Hariri ~


Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~


More law, less justice.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
~By Ian Mcewan ~


Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~By Francis Bacon ~


The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
~By Cliff Stearns ~


Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~


Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~By Gary Oldman ~


Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~


Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
~By David E. Price ~


Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
~By Abdallah II ~


It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
~By Bill Pascrell ~


Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
~By Joseph Addison ~


I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
~By Fred Thompson ~


I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.
~By Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon ~


The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
~By Ralph Neas ~


If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~


Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~


Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
~By Hideki Tojo ~


And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~


In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
~By Albert Einstein ~


Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
~By Michel Foucault ~


First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
~By Hans Frank ~


Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
~By Samuel Butler ~


Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~


When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
~By Barney Frank ~


Delay in justice is injustice.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~


The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
~By Leland Stanford ~


Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Plato ~


In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~By Saint Augustine ~


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.
~By Ted Olson ~


It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
~By Cat Stevens ~


He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
~By Bill Scott ~


The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
~By Christopher Darden ~


There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~


Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
~By Tommy Chong ~


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.
~By Julian Bond ~


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.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~


The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
~By Joseph Butler ~


There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
~By Patrick Leahy ~


The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.
~By Janet Reno ~


What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
~By Robin Hayes ~


Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~


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


Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
~By Joseph Heller ~


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


When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~


Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~


The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
~By Bobby Scott ~


Compassion is no substitute for justice.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~


Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~By Helen Keller ~


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


The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
~By Theodore Parker ~


You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~


All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~By Winston Churchill ~


The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~By Lois McMaster Bujold ~


Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~By Bill Cosby ~


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


I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
~By Cat Stevens ~


You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
~By Birch Bayh ~


Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~By Anton Chekhov ~


Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
~By Ian Smith ~


Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
~By Plato ~


Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
~By William Feather ~


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


The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~


The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
~By Jeff Sessions ~


Justice delayed is justice denied.
~By William E. Gladstone ~


When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~


Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
~By Julian Casablancas ~


America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
~By Barack Obama ~


The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~By Sigmund Freud ~


To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
~By Plato ~


The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
~By Ernest Istook ~


Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~


The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
~By Susannah York ~


The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~By George W. Bush ~


I say that justice is truth in action.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~


Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
~By William Weld ~


That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
~By Clare Short ~

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December 7 ,2023
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