The question is often heard from many people that where justice is found. The existence of this question also tells that even today the common man is not getting justice easily. The modern social nature has put the responsibility of the judicial system on the courts, they are considered to be the only and paramount source of justice. Under the rule of law in the modern democratic system, the courts have the right to differentiate between justice and injustice. What is right and what is wrong is decided by the court on the basis of the books of the legislation. Looking at the number of pending cases today, it can be said that the number of victims seeking justice is increasing day by day. Delay and lack of justice is only increasing its demand. Here are the best of Justice Quotes that will tell you what is right and the importance of fairness in life.
Justice Quotes
- “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”-Ernesto Che Guevara
- “Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.”-Ulpian
- “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” -Lois McMaster Bujold.
- “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”-Aristotle
- “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.”-Albert Einstein.
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”-Cornel West
- “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.” – Howard Zinn.
- “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”― Benjamin Franklin
- “Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.”-Elihu Root
- “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”-Francis Bacon.
- “Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”-William Ernest Hocking
- “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”― Mahatma Gandhi
- “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”-Abraham Lincoln
“Justice delayed is Justice denied.”-William Gladstone
- “Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.”-Anatole France
- “Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”-Blaise Pascal
- “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
- “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”-Bryan Stevenson
- “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.”-‘The Bible’
- “Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.”-Lydia Maria Child
- “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”-James Baldwin
- “Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”-Leigh Bardugo
- “Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”- Denis Diderot
- “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”-Margaret Atwood
- “Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”-William Gaddis
- “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”-Elie Wiesel
- “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”-Martin Luther King Jr
- “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”- Albert Camu
- “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”-Martin Luther King Jr
- “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”- Albert Camus
- “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”-Reinhold Niebuhr
- “People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment.”-Isaac Asimov
- “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”-Robert Frost
- “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”-Joseph de Maistre
- “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”-Learned Hand
- “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”-George Bernard Shaw
- “If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”-Learned Hand
- “Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”-Bryant McGill
- “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”-Georg Lichtenberg
- “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”-H. Jackson Brown Jr
- “When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else’s oppression, we’ll find our opportunities to make real change.”-Ijeoma Oluo
“Justice always whirls in equal measure.”-William Shakespeare
- “Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”-Philip Gourevitch
- “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”– Audre Lorde
- “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”-Maya Angelou
- “My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.”~ John Oliver Killens
- “A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”-George R.R. Martin
- “The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.”- The Bible
- “Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.”- The Bible
- “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”- ‘The Bible
- “The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah”- The Bible
- “When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.”- The Bible
- “To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”- The Bible
- “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”- The Bible
- “There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.’-Denis Diderot
- “The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high.”-Virgil
- “It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”- Aristotle
- “It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.”~ Joseph Conrad
- “It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”-Reginald Rose
- “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.”~ Robert H. Jackson
- “Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.”-Artika Tyner
- “In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.”-Euripides
- “May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”~ Seneca the Younger.
