Justice - Quotes

A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone. - Unknown

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore, it destroys freedom. - Albert Camus

As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is more just than that which is just. - Epictetus

Delay of justice is injustice. - Walter Savage Landor

Extreme justice is often injustice. - Jean Racine

Fine as justice is, as an everyday quality, it is not winning. It is lacking in warmth. We need something better. We need sympathy with the other fellow and kindness. - John Daniel Barry

If justice must be dealt, then let it be dealt, but don't poison yourselves with vengeance. - David Weber

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony. - James Baldwin

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. - Francis Bacon

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. - Albert Einstein

In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked. - Norman MacDonald

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear. What stings is justice. - H. L. Mencken

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

Justice ... is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it judges sharply what is right and what is wrong. On the other hand, judgment based on justice naturally calls forth a counter-judgment as a reaction from the side so-judged. Accordingly, we fall into an endless conflict and struggle between judge and the judged. - Masao Abe

Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. - Blaise Pascal

Justice commands us to have mercy upon all men, to consult the interests of the whole human race, to give to everyone his due. - Cicero

Justice consists in an exact and scrupulous regard to the rights of others, with a deliberate purpose to preserve them upon all occasions secret and inviolate. -Wellins Calcott

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

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

Justice is a glorious and a communicative virtue, ordained for the common good of mankind, without any regard to itself. This it is, that keeps men from worrying one another, and preserves tranquillity in the world. It is the bond of human society. - Wellins Calcott

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

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. - Joseph Addison

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom. - Gottfriend Wilhelm Leibniz

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Justice is incidental to law and order. - John Edgar Hoover

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. - William Penn

Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal to his punishment. - Edward Counsel

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due. - Emperor Justinian

Justice is the exchange of equivalencies. - Leo J. Muir 

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. - Judge Learned Hand

Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays. - Jane Hirshfield

Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side. - Abraham Miller

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. - Frank Herbert

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. - Pope Pius XI

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

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin

Justice without wisdom is impossible. - James Anthony Froude

Men are always invoking justice; and it is justice which should make them tremble. - Madame Swetchine

Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. - Robert Jordan

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally. - David Gerrold

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. - Isaac Rosenfeld

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity. - Austin O’Malley

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. - George Washington

The course of justice often prevents it. - Edward Counsel

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

The death penalty is not about vengeance or deterrence. It is about justice. It is a measure of a nations’s civility and moral backbone that it rewards and punishes in due measure for great deeds and heinous crimes. So, along with Nobel prizes for great accomplishments, humans must also be brave enough and morally confident enough to exact severe penalties for those who commit the worst deed known to humankind: murder. - David Elmore

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche. - Wilhelm Joseph

The first request of civilization ... is that of justice. - Sigmund Freud

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. - George R.R. Martin

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands. - Thomas Nixon Carver

The universal law of justice is: act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law. - Immanuel Kant

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

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice. - Simone Weil

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

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice. - William Hazlitt

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. - Haile Selassie

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. - Joseph Addison

To delay justice is injustice. - William Penn

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is justice in one place is injustice in another. - Edward Counsel

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn. - Pierre Vergniaud

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. - Lew Wallace

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done. - Marge Simpson