Justice Quotes

When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness.

~ Tom Krause

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

~ Ethan Hawke

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice

~ Dauglas Dauglas

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

~ Matthew Henry

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

Our power comes from the earth

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

Life shifting, as life does

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

Gringos! They have copied us again

~ Luis Alberto Urrea

I don't know why you decided to wear that costume, but it makes you a symbol. Just as Robin was a symbol. Or Superman, or Nightwing, or the policeman who wears his uniform. And this isn't just a symbol of the law, it's a symbol of justice. When one policeman is killed, others take his place because justice can't be stopped.

~ Marv Wolfman

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.

~ Ellis Peters

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

~ John Rawls

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty, the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

~ Plato

There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

~ Scott Turow

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.

~ John Rawls

Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy...

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

~ Tom Stoppard

As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.

~ Allen Wheelis

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.

~ Fred Munoz

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between “guilty” and “innocent.” Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn’t I be “neither” or “both”? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.

~ Paul Beatty

I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.

~ Marjane Satrapi

To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know without works is dead. The faith that raises awareness, educates the community, advocates, cares for the widows and feeds the orphans. Choose the faith that is compelled to action, but not controlled my anger.

~ Andrena Sawyer

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

~ Anne Carson

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

~ Don Marquis

God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.

~ Criss Jami

Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin.

~ Andrena Sawyer

Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.

~ Elizabeth Carlton

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm appalled with description of Sex Criminal as recreation. Just responded to 20 minutes of action by father of Stanford rapist. Lots of women at Goodreads, what are you thinking?

~ Bawb Cawx

Never let the law interfere with justice.

~ James Hickey

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

~ Daniel Defoe

Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.Don't matter, Justice is always there,Always right there, no matter where I go.My baby Lonesome,Makin' it so I'm never missin' home.

~ Kristen Ashley

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.

~ Pauli Murray

Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.

~ Amiri Baraka

How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?''I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.

~ Cinda Williams Chima