Justice Quotes - page 3

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. (Earl Warren)

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Adlai Stevenson II

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Arnold Bennett

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Karl Kraus

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

Richard Dawkins

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. (Learned Hand)

Mercy is of greater value than justice.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

William Ernest Hocking

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Horatio Nelson

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. (Adam Smith)

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

Sachin Tendulkar

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

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

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Aristide Briand

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