Jealousy - Quotes

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Jealousy

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein

Do not waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes you are behind. The race is long and, in the end, it is only with yourself. - Unknown

Jealousy comes from counting others' blessings instead of our own. - Unknown

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. - Maya Angelou

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. - Emma Goldman

Jealousy is the anger of the weak. - Osho

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Henry Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. - John Dryden 

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - Unknown

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. - Unknown

Jobs - Quotes

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. - James H. Douglas, Jr.

A job worth doing be it great or small, Is worth doing well or not at all. - Reed Budge 

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Ralph Emerson

Choose a job you love, and  you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

Don’t just do your best – get the job done! - Stan Watts 

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. - Henry Moore

It’s the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Nothing relieves the monotony of a job like finding ways to improve it. - Unknown

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it. - Howard Newton

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

Queer thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks. - Eden Phillpotts

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. - William Bliss Carman

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without it. - Unknown

The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, the ones that you do not love. - George Matthew Adams

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job. - William Feather

Jokes - Quotes

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there’s a good chance no one's heard it before. - Doug Larson

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. - William Hazlitt

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. - Johann Von Schiller

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke. - J.J. Procter

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue – agree with him. - Ed Howe

Journalism - Quotes

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. - Janet Malcom

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. - Hunter S. Thompson

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. - Ellen Goodman

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. - Henry Anatole Grunwald

Journalism could be described as turning one’s enemies into money. - Craig Brown

Journalism is a career which demands the highest professionalism. It demands responsibility as well, for the line between honest revelation and disingenuous sensationalism is sometimes perilously thin. - Margaret Thatcher

Journalism is literature in a hurry. - Matthew Arnold

Journalism is unlike any other craft. It most closely resembles show business. There's an undeniable element of ego in journalism, and an equally undeniable element of self-sacrifice. Performers know the show must go on. Journalists know the paper has to come out on time. - Donald L. Ferguson

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person’s going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So, the trick is: don’t give them one. - Amy Hempel

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees. - Marguerite Duras

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. - Rebecca West

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action. - Graham Greene

The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are rat-like cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability. - Nicholas Tomalin

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. - James Fenimore Cooper

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. - Oscar Wilde

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

We journalists are seducers, except it's not sex we're after (usually). It's sound bites and quotes and information. - Eric Weiner

Journey - Quotes

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. - Tim Cahill

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. - John Steinbeck

A little step may be the beginning of a great journey. - Unknown

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. - Martin Buber

Don’t expect anyone to understand your journey, especially if they’ve never walked your path. - Unknown

Don’t regret yesterday. It is the perfect compass guiding your journey today. - Unknown

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. - Jeanette Winterson

Every journey has an end. - Seneca

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. - Greg Anderson

Footprints past, of both living and dead, shall determine the scope of the journey ahead. - Unknown

I think it’s my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. - Leonard Nimoy

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Ursula K. Le Guinn

It’s all about the journey. What you learn, connections you make, how you love, compassion you’re shown. It’s the good you’ve done, lives you’ve touched and growth you’ve made. - Unknown

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way. - Jeremy Aldana

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be… Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. - Erich Fromm

Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. - Mandy Hale

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. - Lillian Smith

Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours. - Unknown

Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone. - Ken Poirot

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. - Drake

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys. - Zig Ziglar

The challenges on your journey can either be a distractions or opportunities. Don’t allow the challenges to distract your vision. With positive mind-set, you can turn them into wonderful opportunities. - Lailah Gifty

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. - Barbara De Angelis

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. - Dag Hammarskjold

The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems. - Maori Proverb

The only journey is the one within. - Rainer Maria Rilke

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. - Chinese Proverbs

We are all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better roadmaps. - Nelson DeMille

Your journey has moulded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to this now. And now is right on time. - Asha Tyson

Joy - Quotes

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. - Mother Teresa

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. - Zoroaster

Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones. - Unknown

Don’t postpone Joy  until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. - Alan Cohen

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. - Greg Anderson

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must find somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. - Kahlil Gibran

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters. - Oprah Winfrey

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. - Ed Sullivan

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed. - Madonna

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. - Rene Descartes

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful. - Henry Ward Beecher

Joy and bliss can come from the little and most unexpected thing if only we program our mind to enjoy these little things. - RVM

Joy and sorrow are inseparable. Together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. - Kahlil Gibran

Joy can never be captured, it can only be allowed to flow through us. - Lisa Prosen

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure. - James Allen

Joy comes from using your potential. - Will Schultz

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. - Jean Paul Richter

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. - Henri Nouwen

Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure. - James Allen

Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person deep down has a pretty good grasp of life. - Unknown

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. - Greg Anderson

Joy is found in simple things. - Todd Stocker

Joy is good for the heart and soul, celebrate life – let your joy flow. Joy is not just a brave smile or laugh. It’s something deep within, it’s contentment, confidence and hope; knowing you will win. - Unknown

Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. - Laura Moncur

Joy is not in things! It is in us! - Benjamin Frankli

Joy is the best makeup. - Anne Lamott

Joy is the best wine. - George Eliot

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. - Melba Colgrove

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. - Helen Keller

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Bath

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself. - Mahatma Gandhi

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. - Orison Swett Marden

My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. - Chinese Proverb

Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy. - Robert M. Sherfield

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. - Geneen Roth

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. - Eckhart Tolle

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. - Wilfred Grenfell

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. - Euripides

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. - John Cheever

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. - Kahlil Gibran

The greatest joys are those that are shared. - Leon Fleisher

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have anew and different sun. - Christopher McCandless

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. - Billy Joel

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. - Michel de Montaigne

The purpose of one’s life is fulfilled only when one is able to give joy to another. - Sarada Devi

The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. - David Steindl-Rast

The secret to knowing joy is being easily pleased. - Mark Nepo

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. - Anais Nin

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.- Audre Lorde

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. - Henri Bergson

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. - George Bernard Shaw

Town folk know pleasures, country people joys. - Minna Antrim

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools. - Unknown

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind ispure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - The Buddha

When joy has a reason, it is not going to last long. When joy is without any reason, it is going to be there forever. - Osho

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. - RJ Baughan

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. - Marianne Williamson

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you. - Shannon L. Alder

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness – all the good things. - Maya Angelou

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. - Stanislaw Lec

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow – I have still joy in the midst of these things. - Confucius

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Judge / Judgement - Quotes

All judgments we make add up and weigh us down! And holding on to them consumes so much energy. Let those ridiculous judgments go with a  laugh and use all that energy to make the people around you feel good, valued and loved instead. - Paul S Boynton 

Before you judge another, think of your own last mistake. - Unknown

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. - Jean Jaques Rousseau

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus

Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins one moon. - Native American Proverb

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stephenson

Don’t judge me because I sin differently from you. - Unknown

Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances. - Benjamin Franklin

Don’t judge someone’s story by the chapter you just walked into. - Unknown

Don’t judge what you don’t understand. - Unknown

Don’t judge yourself by your past. You don’t live there anymore. - Unknown

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. - Robert Southey

I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best. - Lionel Abel

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment. - George Washington

If you judge people too often, you will never learn very well. You will be too occupied with others’ faults to notice your own. - Unknown

If you judge people you have no time to love them. - Mother Theresa

If you judge, investigate. - Seneca

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side. - Euripides

In judging others, it’s always best to see with the heart as well as the eyes. - Unknown

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality. - Arnold Bennett

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. - Alexander Pope

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. - Euripides

Judge not the horse by its saddle. - Chinese Proverb

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. - Rabbi Hillel

Judge not, lest ye be judged. - The Bible

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. - Wayne Dyer

Make no judgements where you have no compassion. - Anne Mccaffrey

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered. - Stephen Cosgrove

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. - Pietro Aretino

Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. - Paul Valery 

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Albert Camus

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Unknown

The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption. - Grenville Kleiser 

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us. - Sydney J. Harris

There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment. - Malcolm Hein

Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge. - Wilson Kanadi

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. - Charles William Stubbs

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. - Harold Nicolson

We judge others by their behaviour. We judge ourselves by our intentions. - Ian Percy

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. - Michel Montaigne

We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them. - Dr. Alsaker

We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgment on our fellows. - Jean Baptiste Moliere

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

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