Justice Quotes - page 2

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. (Augustine of Hippo)
The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. View quote
William Hazlitt
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. View quote
Kim Campbell
Justice without strength is powerless strength without justice is tyrannical. View quote
Blaise Pascal
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
Justice delayed is justice denied. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. View quote
Edmund Burke
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. (Edmund Burke)
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. View quote
Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. View quote
Edmund Burke
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Justice as fairness provides what we want. View quote
John Rawls
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. View quote
Robert Browning
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! (Laurie Anderson)
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. View quote
Roger Zelazny