Quotes About Justice

For Liberty can be lost by the practical men whose hearts are too shrunken to contain it. Liberty can be bartered away by the greedy minds who cannot see beyond their own day. Liberty can be stolen away by the robber and the brute. But Liberty grows like grass in the hearts of the common people, from the blood of their martyrs. And the tyrants rage and are gone, but the dream and the deed endure.

I call the brave to the battle-line, I call the sane to the council -- I call the free millions of earth to the century ahead -- the century of the common man, established by you, the people. For this world cannot endure, half slave and half free.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Abbiamo dei vecchi e dei nuovi conti da regolare: li regoleremo.

Y usted sigue tan fresco, esperando su remedio de la justicia, que es lo mismo que esperarlo de la luna.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

They balance the Sistine Temple between the column of G'vurah (strength and justice) on the left side and the column of Chessed (mercy and loving-kindness) on the right side. But

Thus, Michelangelo filled the chapel with hidden messages of his passionate loves and his righteous rages, along with mystic symbols of divine justice and divine mercy. For him, the Sistine was indeed the Sanctuary, the neck of the world, but more than that, it was "The Bridge"—the bridge meant to unite people with God, with their fellow humans, and, perhaps most difficult of all, with their own spiritual selves.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

It is a great vice for any constitution to leave to powerful men no alternative between their own power and the scaffold.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. (Misattributed)

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.