JUSTICE QUOTES
quotations about justice
Justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
speech, Feb. 11, 1851
The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
A Testament of Hope
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
BARACK OBAMA
Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
Law without justice is a wound without a cure.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
BIBLE
Proverbs 21:15
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Coloured Lands
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech in Washington, D.C., 1865
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
BIBLE
Amos 5:24
A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
In Quest of Democracy
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
BIBLE
Proverbs 29:7
This thing that men call justice, this blind snake that strikes men down in the dark, mindless with fury, keep your hand back from it, pass by in silence.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
Justice is the virtue that innocence rejoiceth in.
BEN JONSON
Timber
You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
MARGE SIMPSON
The Simpsons
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected--those, precisely, who need the law's protection most!--and listens to their testimony.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Price of the Ticket
Delay of justice is injustice.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
speech, 1861
The Lord is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
BIBLE
Psalms 9:16
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude