Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
~ Joseph Addison

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~ Aeschylus

Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
~ Aristotle

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
~ Augustine

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
~ Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
~ Francis Bacon

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James A. Baldwin

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
~ Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
~ Edmund Burke

Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.
~ Samuel Butler

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more laws the less justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, in De Officiis

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.
~ Bill Cosby

Justice is truth in action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
~ Louis Farrakhan

Let justice be done, though the world perish.
~ Ferdinand I

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

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~ Sigmund Freud

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that gives is a punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Justice delayed is justice denied.
~ William E. Gladstone

I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
~ Heraclitus

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
~ President Andrew Jackson

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.
~ Rush Limbaugh

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
~ Martin Luther

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
~ Martin Luther

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice no matter who it’s for or against.
~ Malcolm X

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
~ H. L. Mencken

Justice without force is powerful; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.
~ Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~ Plato

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
~ Pope John Paul II

If you want peace, work for justice.
~ Pope Paul IV

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment; ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’
~ Sophocles

There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~ Sophocles

Law and justice are not always the same.
~ Gloria Steinem

Fairness is what justice really is.
~ Potter Stewart

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes…You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few parking tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a cop car in your rear-view mirror.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is hard and discordant.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
~ Orson Welles

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
~ Walt Whitman

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection.  Made for joy, we settle for pleasure.  Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
~ N.T. Wright, in Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
__________

RELATED CONTENT

• Trivia Index
• Index to Great Quotes

__________