justice quotes

• The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. (Jimmy Carter) [right/property//]
• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. ( Aristotle) [virtue//wisdom]
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ( Aristotle) [animals/right/]
• Never pray for justice, because you might get some. (Margaret Atwood) []
• The place of justice is a hallowed place. (Francis Bacon) []
• Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. (Francis Bacon) [religion/care/]
• Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. (James Baldwin) [words//democracy/people]
• The price of justice is eternal publicity. (Arnold Bennett) [price/]
• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. (Aristide Briand) [heroism//right]
• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. (Edmund Burke) [men/love//understanding]
• When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. (Edmund Burke) []
• Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. (Edmund Burke) [discipline/virtue//form]
• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. (Samuel Butler) [/being]
• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. (Winston Churchill) [/mercy]
• The foundation of justice is good faith. (Marcus Cicero) [/faith]
• Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. (Marcus Cicero) []
• Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. (Marcus Cicero) [knowledge//wisdom]
• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. (Leonard Cohen) [/willpower/more/willpower]
• Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. (Charles Caleb Colton) [//willpower/moment]
• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. ( Confucius) []
• There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [thing/]
• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. (Daniel Defoe) [/eyes]
• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. (John Dewey) [health/wealth//action]
• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. (Charles Dickens) [charity/housing/]
• Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. (Denis Diderot) [/virtue]
• Justice is truth in action. (Benjamin Disraeli) [/truth/action]
• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. (Albert Einstein) [truth//treatment/people]
• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [truth/being//application]
• Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. (Henry Fielding) [/mercy]
• It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator. (Mahatma Gandhi) [war/wish//more]
• Generosity is the flower of justice. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [flower/]

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