Justice Quotes

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

Knowledge, Wisdom, Rather

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

Truth, Parents, Quiet

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Liberty, Virtue, Moderation

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Equality, Happy, Religious

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Plato

Life, State, Possible

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Great, War

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
Joel Osteen

God, Making, Wrongs

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

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

Nature, Equality, Injustice

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 without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

Force, Powerless, Tyrannical

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

Music, Military

The more laws, the less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Revenge, Passion, Act

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther

Peace, Important, Made

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

Government, Why, Reason

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

Cannot, Violence, Social

I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

Humanity, May, Reason

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

Easy, Injustice, Bear

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Men, Death

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Charity, Substitute, Withheld

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

God, Humanity, Done

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

Absence, Robbery, Organized

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

Liberty, Virtue, Moderation

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace, War, Mind

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles

Good, Bad, Luck

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Ignorance, Enemy

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel

Power, Strength, Strong

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