Justice Quotes - page 4

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. (Arthur Henderson)
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet. View quote
Bill Cosby
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. View quote
James J. Corbett
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. View quote
William Gaddis
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. (Blaise Pascal)
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. View quote
Cicero
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. View quote
Norman Borlaug
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Justice is happiness according to virtue. View quote
John Rawls
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. View quote
John Rawls
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. (Ambrose Bierce)
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. View quote
Ralph Nader
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. View quote
Robert Nozick
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. View quote
Joseph Addison