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Quotes About Justice

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
~ Polycarp
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.
~ Ned Kelly
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
~ Herbert Spencer
All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
~ Coretta Scott King
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.
~ Ibn Hazm
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
~ Desmond Tutu
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
~ Primo Levi
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
~ Karl Marx
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
~ Thomas More
O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
~ Busiri
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
~ Aeschylus
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
~ Desmond Tutu
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
~ Christopher Reeve