Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. Bush

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

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus

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

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Lenny Bruce

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

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
Norman Borlaug

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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