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Quotes About Justice

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
~ Theodore Parker
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.
~ Swami Vivekananda
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
~ Henry Miller
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
~ Maxim Gorky
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
~ Maya Angelou
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
~ Walid Jumblatt
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I say that justice is truth in action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
~ Thomas Malthus
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope
~ Dalai Lama
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
~ H. L. Mencken
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
~ H. L. Mencken
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.
~ Charles Mackay
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
~ Boris Pasternak
The law is agnostic about truth.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.
~ Madame de Stael
There's no God higher than truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small
~ Albert Einstein