Justice Quotes

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Purpose, Constant, Due

More law, less justice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Life, Nothing, Words

Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.
Paul Ryan

Strong, Person, Free

Fairness is what justice really is.
Potter Stewart

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler

Whatever, Injustice, Allowed

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Care, Others

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
David E. Price

Live, Help, Country

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt

Love, Angry, Envy

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

Long, Enough, Eyes

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin

God, Human, Another

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

God, Care, Human

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

Religion, Care, Next

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Law, Young, Court

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus

Great, Wealth, Defense

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Men, Death

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Age, Truth, Freedom

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

Place, Hallowed

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler

Sometimes, She, While

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

God, War, Freedom

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

Living, Cannot, Dead

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

Peace, Else, Easy

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

Harm, Compact, Harmed

Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Horace

Sister, Fidelity

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

Cannot, Violence, Nor

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
Mason Cooley

Simple, Matter, Getting

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Sophocles

Democracy, Keep, Thou

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

Peace, Time, Same

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph

Freedom, Struggle, Political

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