Justice Quotes · Page 151

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

— Saint Augustine

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

— James Madison

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.”

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

— Epicurus

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

— Jules Renard

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

— Billy Graham

“you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Then satan will have lost his foothold of accusation. He is defeated when…

— Terry Law

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race…

— Anonymous

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties…

— Widad Akrawi

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and…

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their…

— Jose Marti

“For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and…

— D C 25 12

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding…

— George Cheyne

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest…

— Thomas Paine

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married…

— Julian Bond

I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights…

— Jo Nesbo

Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not…

— Anthony Mary Claret

“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…

— Wendell Berry

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes…

— John Hospers

When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to…

— John O'Donohue

“When the sands were running out of the glass, delayed justice was as bad as injustice.”

— Brent Weeks

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

— Mitch McConnell

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

— Frederick Buechner

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

— Hesiod

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

— Earl Warren

The people who are entrusted with interpreting the law and upholding justice are tasked with an enormous duty.

— Phil Scott

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

— Albert Camus

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.”

— John Kramer

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

— Bell Hooks

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

— Julian Castro

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us.

— Gary Haugen

For as long as there are people, there will be at least some constantly fighting the injustice the others do.

— Mariana Fulger