Justice Quotes

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

~ Alfred Nobel

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

~ Henry Louis Gates

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

~ Barry Goldwater

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

~ Daniel Webster

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.

~ Jeff Lemire

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

~ Bernie Sanders

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

~ Saint Augustine

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

~ Lysander Spooner

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

~ John Jay Hooker

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

~ James A. Garfield

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

~ Ahmed Zewail

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

~ Two Chainz

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

~ Ann Cotton

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

~ Aristotle

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

~ Donna Brazile

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

~ Joseph Story

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

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

~ Martin Luther

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

~ Jeff Sessions

Peace without justice is tyranny.

~ William Allen White

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

~ Tran Duc Luong

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

~ Angelina Jolie

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

~ Tom Hayden

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

~ John Mccain

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

~ Anne Lamott

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

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

~ Charles M. Schwab

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

~ James Weldon Johnson

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

~ A. Philip Randolph

The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.

~ Robert Kennedy

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

~ Cliff Sloan

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

~ George Will