Justice Quotes

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

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

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

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

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

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

There's no justice in this world.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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