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Quotes About Justice

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
~ Chuck Lorre
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
~ Laozi
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
~ Eric Holder
It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
~ Clarence Darrow
Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.
~ Corey Taylor
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
~ Joe Mantegna
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
~ Oliver North
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour. "No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!
~ J. K. Rowling
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson
If you see a good fight, get in it.
~ Vernon Johns
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
~ Paul Samuelson
To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!
~ Pope Francis
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Good morals lead to good laws.
~ Chuck Norris
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
~ Edmund Burke
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
~ Peter Abelard
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
~ Aristotle