Justice Quotes

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

~ David Sedaris

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword....a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

~ George R.r. Martin

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

~ G.k. Chesterton

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.

~ Wendell Berry

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, This is not just. It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, This is not just. The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

~ John Adams

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

~ Albert Camus

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

~ Robert Jordan

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

~ Bryan Stevenson

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

~ William Gaddis

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

~ Terry Goodkind

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

~ Leigh Bardugo

There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

~ Brent Weeks

Please!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. ‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.

~ Rick Riordan

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

~ Emilie Autumn

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

~ Samuel Johnson

Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.

~ Mark Helprin

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

~ Howard Zinn

I don't want tea, I want justice!

~ Ally Carter

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

~ Roseanne Barr

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

~ Anne Bishop

You are not wrong. You fought to protect your world. Isn't that good enough? After all, justice in this world is just a bunch of principles made by those with power to suit themselves. No one really thinks of others, you will lose everything if you cannot keep up. Only two kinds of people exist in this world—those who steal and those who are stolen from. So then, today, I just stole your future. That's all.

~ Yana Toboso

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

~ Bob Dylan

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

~ David Gemmell

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

~ John Quincy Adams

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

~ Isaac Asimov

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

~ Euripides

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

~ Joseph E. Stiglitz

If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.

~ Anthony Liccione

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

~ Pat Schroeder

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

~ Thomas Paine

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

~ Albert Camus

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

~ R.c. Sproul

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

~ Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

~ Victor Hugo

And one day we must ask the question, Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.