Justice Quotes

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

Terence

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

George

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

Felix Frankfurter

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge.

Anonymous

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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

Clarence Darrow

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

Injustice never rules forever.

Seneca

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Horace

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs

Delay of justice is injustice.

Walter Savage Landor

The spirits of just men made perfect.

Hebrews

God's mill grinds slow but sure.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Render therefore to all their dues.

Romans

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

Seneca

This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

William Shakespeare

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.

Maurice Maeterlinck

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

Ljupka Cvetanova

True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do’s and don’ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

God calls a man, ‘man’ only if he identifies himself with God’s values ad stands for truth and justice

Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love ’n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

John Galsworthy

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

Benjamin Harrison

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

Catherine Mackinnon

Remember, what goes around comes around, if you give out venom, sooner or later it will come back to poison you

Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak for others as well.

Duo Duo

King- Hamilton, Judge Alan ( b 1900 )'...I think he erred on the side of severity when he gave Janie Jones, the notorious madame, seven years after the jury had acquitted her'. 'Well, these things are relative of course. It all depends on what you've been acquitted of. Miss Jones was innocent of a very serious offence.

William Donaldson

Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked.

Markham Shaw Pyle

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

Timothy J. Keller

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Gregory David Roberts

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?

Sophocles

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

In the Carolinas they say "hill people" are different from "flatlands people," and as a native Kentuckian with more mountain than flatlands blood, I'm inclined to agree. This was one of the theories I'd been nursing all the way from San Francisco. Unlike Porterville or Hollister, Bass Lake was a mountain community ... and if the old Appalachian pattern held, the people would be much slower to anger or panic, but absolutely without reason or mercy once the fat was in the fire. Like the Angels, they would tend to fall back in an emergency on their own native sense of justice -- which bears only a primitive resemblance to anything written in law books. I thought the mountain types would be far more tolerant of the Angels' noisy showboating, but -- compared to their flatlands cousins -- much quicker to retaliate in kind at the first evidence of physical insult or abuse.

Hunter S. Thompson

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.

The Great Pacifist

the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."Chain Reaction, 23

Thomas B. Edsall

Justice is rendering each killer that which is his due.

Mark M. DeRobertis

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