JUSTICE QUOTES

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• We will serve justice to the nations of injustice. We will serve democracy to the realms of dictatorship and we will serve peace to the land of unsettlement.
  ~ Aldo Hornsey ~
• Along with the times Bear the truth, good, and right Do what ought. Be a man of justice and morals
  ~ Audel Ken Santillan ~
• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
  ~ Walt Whitman ~
• An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities’ rule and minorities’ rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.
  ~ Zaman Ali ~
• Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.
  ~ Zaman Ali ~
• When you are silent without any action , injustice will come in front of you.
  ~ Mohammed Arshad Amin ~
• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
  ~ Walter Lippmann ~
• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
  ~ Walter Lippmann ~
• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• 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 ~
• Justice is the truth in action.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
  ~ George Will ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
  ~ Andrea Dworkin ~
• Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
  ~ Ann Landers ~
• 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 ~
• Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
  ~ Alan Dershowitz ~
• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
  ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
• You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
  ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
  ~ Barbara Boxer ~
• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
  ~ Barbara Boxer ~
• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
  ~ Barbara Boxer ~
• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
  ~ Ralph Nader ~
• I think the first duty of society is justice.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• 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 ~
• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• If you want peace work for justice.
  ~ Pope Paul Vi ~
• If you want peace work for justice.
  ~ Pope Paul Vi ~
• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
  ~ Bono ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
  ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
• 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 ~
• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
  ~ Rick Warren ~
• I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
  ~ Rick Warren ~
• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
  ~ Caroline Kennedy ~
• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
  ~ Ai Weiwei ~
• China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
  ~ Ai Weiwei ~
• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
  ~ Isabel Allende ~
• When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
  ~ Sachin Tendulkar ~
• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
  ~ Leonard Cohen ~
• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
  ~ Geraldine Brooks ~
• It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
  ~ Michel Foucault ~
• Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
  ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~
• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
  ~ 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 ~
• I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
  ~ George Mcgovern ~
• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
  ~ Paul Wellstone ~
• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
  ~ Paul Wellstone ~
• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
  ~ Groucho Marx ~
• Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
  ~ Christopher Lasch ~
• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
  ~ Thomas Aquinas ~
• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
  ~ Thomas Aquinas ~
• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
  ~ Harry S. Truman ~
• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
  ~ Harry S. Truman ~
• 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 ~
• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
  ~ Elie Wiesel ~
• In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
  ~ Arthur Henderson ~
• Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
  ~ Arthur Henderson ~
• Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
  ~ Arthur Henderson ~
• We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
  ~ Annie Lennox ~
• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
  ~ Horace ~
• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
  ~ Horace ~
• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
  ~ Glenn Beck ~