Justice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
-- Aaron Swartz -
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
-- Aaron Swartz -
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
-- Abba Eban -
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
-- Abdallah II -
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
-- Adam Hamilton -
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
-- Adam Hochschild -
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
-- Adam Smith -
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
-- Adam Smith -
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
-- Adolf Eichmann -
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.
-- Adolf Hitler -
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.
-- Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
-- Aeschylus -
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
-- Aeschylus -
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
-- Aeschylus -
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
-- Aeschylus -
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
-- Aeschylus -
Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?
-- African Spir -
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
-- African Spir -
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
-- African Spir -
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
-- African Spir -
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
-- Agatha Christie -
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.
-- Agnivesh -
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
-- Agnivesh -
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)
-- Ai Yazawa -
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead.
-- Aime Cesaire -
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
-- Alan Lomax -
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
-- Alan Paton -
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
-- Alan Ryan -
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
-- Albert Camus -
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
-- Albert Camus -
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
-- Albert Camus -
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
-- Albert Camus -
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
-- Albert Camus -
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
-- Albert Camus -
If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
-- Albert Camus -
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
-- Albert Camus -
Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom
-- Albert Camus -
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
-- Albert Einstein -
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
-- Albert Einstein -
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
-- Albert Einstein -
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
-- Albert Einstein -
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
-- Albert Einstein -
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
-- Albert Pike -
Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
-- Albert Pike -
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
-- Albert Pike -
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
-- Albert Pike -
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
-- Alberto Manguel -
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
-- Aldo Leopold -
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority .... Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?
-- Alexander Hamilton -
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
-- Alexander Pope -
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
-- Alexander Smith -
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
-- Alexander Smith -
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
-- Alexander Stille -
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
-- Alfred Doblin -
War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order
-- Alfred Hermann Fried -
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
-- Alfred Hershey -
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
-- Alfred Nobel -
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
-- Algernon Sidney
