JUSTICE QUOTES V

quotations about justice

As for justice, who has once seen it done?

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

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Justice without charity is at best a dutiful stepmother.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

CORNEL WEST

attributed, And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists


Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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For there are in nature certain fountains of justice whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Guardian, Jul. 4, The Guardian, Jul. 4, 1713

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When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

PIERRE VERGNIAUD

speech, Jan. 17, 1793

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

DANIEL DEFOE

Shortest Way with Dissenters

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Many remark justice is blind; pity those in her sway, shocked to discover she is also deaf.

DAVID MAMET

Faustus

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It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

B. R. HAYDON, Table Talk

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If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

inaugural address, Mar. 4, 1925

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Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.

BIBLE

Psalms 106:3

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In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

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The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Sentences et Maximes Morales

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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

"A Dialogue", The Shorter Leibniz Texts

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Justice is happiness according to virtue.

JOHN RAWLS

A Theory of Justice

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The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

JOHN RAWLS

A Theory of Justice

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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established.

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts

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The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.

XENOPHON

Oeconomicus: On the Management of a Farm and Household

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