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Quotes About Justice

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
~ Robert the Bruce
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
~ Democritus
Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
~ Émile Zola
A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
~ Archibald Cox
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
~ Raymond Chandler
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
~ Gorgias
I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
~ Vincent Price
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
~ Dian Fossey
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.
~ Enver Hoxha
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
~ Hammurabi
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
~ Marcus Garvey
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~ Émile Zola
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
~ Plato
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
~ Ayrton Senna
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
~ James Buchanan
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
~ James Meredith
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
~ William Shakespeare