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Quotes About Justice

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
~ Victor Hugo
Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.
~ Vladimir Putin
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
~ Voltaire
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
~ William Blake
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
~ William Cowper
I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.
~ William McNamara
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
~ William Penn
Laws are the silent assessors of God.
~ William Rounseville Alger
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
~ William Rounseville Alger
God defend the right.
~ William Shakespeare
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
~ William Shakespeare
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
~ Lajos Kossuth
We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.
~ Louise Jordan Miln
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God is the shield of the nonviolent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi