Justice Quotes

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

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan

Peace, Truth, Someone

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

Made, Liberty, Opinion

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon

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

Peace, Men, Fairness

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

Beauty, Happiness, Everything

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

May, Show, Duty

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar

Successful, Political, Revolution

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

Power, Powerful, May

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu

Law, Name, Tyranny

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Two, Same

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens

Home, Door, Next

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge, Wisdom, May

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Revenge, Law

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus

Lies, False, Overtake

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Great, Society, Lies

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine

Punishment, Unjust

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Nature, Humanity, Law

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King

Freedom, Political, Cannot

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman

History, Judging, Far

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
Phyllis Diller

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy, Makes, Possible

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Power, Human, Original

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

Since, Laws, Regarded

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke

Free, Based, Trade

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Touch, Tools

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal

God, Nothing, Before

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Put, Often, Second

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
David Herbert Lawrence

Anger, Angry, Soul

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Giving, Decency

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