Justice Quotes

Justice is the right of the weakest. (Joseph Joubert)
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Justice is the truth in action. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Never pray for justice, because you might get some. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. View quote
James A. Garfield
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. View quote
Malcolm X
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
I say that justice is truth in action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. View quote
Groucho Marx
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. View quote
John Rawls
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. View quote
George Washington
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. (Lin Yutang)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. View quote
Stephen Spender
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. View quote
Learned Hand
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill