Justice Quotes

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to othe...

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justi...

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension w...

And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off fr...

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the ...

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of thos...

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage an...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as ...

I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down ...

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to ...

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save...

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's...

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a demo...

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as ...

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed a...

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think tha...

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the...

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands...

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand G...

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through stri...

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the d...

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to vie...

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause...

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what j...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter ...

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some t...

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government...

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the ne...

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or po...

In the Carolinas they say "hill people" are different from "flatlands people," and as a native Kentu...

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami...

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no ha...

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...

I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the ...

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk up...

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not eve...

A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights an...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo...

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure...

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...

...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract just...

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that wa...

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is some...

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be ...

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, the...

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocent...

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice,...

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do n...

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but goo...

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...

Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorist...

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in tha...

I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at leas...

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to ...

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus ...

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the H...

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the wo...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable...

Law and justice are not the same.

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of cle...

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of nati...

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - J...

Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you w...

As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but s...

Since most law-abiding citizens had no contact with the parole system, it was not a priority with th...

Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of r...

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly a...

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are fou...