Justice Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson