Quotes About Justice

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.