JUSTICE QUOTES II

quotations about justice

Justice quote

Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel,
The justice of my quarrel.

APHRA BEHN

The Moor's Revenge

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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions; therefore it destroys freedom.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Rebel

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Justice commands us to have mercy upon all men, to consult the interests of the whole human race, to give to every one his due.

CICERO

On the Republic

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Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Guardian, Jul. 4, 1713

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All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians

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The course of justice often prevents it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

speech, Mar. 18, 1876

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The place of justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not only the bench, but the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thereof, ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption. For certainly grapes (as the Scripture saith) will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; neither can justice yield her fruit with sweetness, amongst the briars and brambles of catching and polling clerks, and ministers. The attendance of courts, is subject to four bad instruments. First, certain persons that are sowers of suits; which make the court swell, and the country pine. The second sort is of those, that engage courts in quarrels of jurisdiction, and are not truly amici curiae, but parasiti curiae, in puffing a court up beyond her bounds, for their own scraps and advantage. The third sort, is of those that may be accounted the left hands of courts; persons that are full of nimble and sinister tricks and shifts, whereby they pervert the plain and direct courses of courts, and bring justice into oblique lines and labyrinths. And the fourth, is the poller and exacter of fees; which justifies the common resemblance of the courts of justice, to the bush whereunto, while the sheep flies for defence in weather, he is sure to lose part of his fleece. On the other side, an ancient clerk, skilful in precedents, wary in proceeding, and understanding in the business of the court, is an excellent finger of a court; and doth many times point the way to the judge himself.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Judicature", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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The greatest trespasser on justice still wishes it done to him.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Is justice therefore various or mutable? No, but the times, over which it presides, flow not evenly, because they are times.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Guardian, Jul. 4, 1713

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Hudibras

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Justice consists in an exact and scrupulous regard to the rights of others, with a deliberate purpose to preserve them upon all occasions secret and inviolate.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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To delay justice is injustice.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

DAVID GERROLD

Under the Eye of God

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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

JEAN GENET

The Balcony

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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

FRANCIS BACON

speech in Overbury murder case, Nov. 1615

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