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Quotes About Justice

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
~ Blaise Pascal
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~ Sophocles
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
~ Greg Egan
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Truth is the best defense.
~ Ward Churchill
There can be no mercy without truth.
~ Adrian Rogers
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
~ Bob Dylan
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
~ Kylie Bax
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
~ John Legend
I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.
~ Jerome Kerviel
Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
~ Richard Paul Evans
Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.
~ Steven Weber
Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough
~ Johannes Steinhoff
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
~ Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.
~ Saint Augustine
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
~ H. Rap Brown
The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.
~ Harry Belafonte