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Quotes About Justice

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
~ Charles Simmons
It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.
~ Christopher Dodd
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
~ Cornel West
For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.
~ Dalai Lama
If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.
~ Dane Cook
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
~ Denis Diderot
Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.
~ Don Cornell
When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.
~ Emilio Estevez
Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
~ Esaias Tegner
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
~ George MacDonald
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
~ Henry Rollins
You cant have justice unless you have truth.
~ Hill Harper
More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.
~ Imelda Marcos
[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."
~ Jeffrey Rosen
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
~ Jim Lehrer
"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.
~ Jimmy Carter
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Justice and truth are the common ties of society
~ John Locke
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
~ John Milton
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
~ Julian Assange
Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
~ Khalil