100 Justice Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing justice quotes and sayings.
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Short Justice Sayings
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” —William E. Gladstone
“Compassion is no substitute for justice.” —Rush Limbaugh
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” —Earl Warren
“The severest justice may not always be the best policy.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” —Orson Welles
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” —William Shakespeare
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.” —Francis Bacon
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” —Ginetta Sagan
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.” —Margaret Atwood
“It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.” —Bob Enyart
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.” —Leigh Bardugo
“There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court.” —Clarence Darrow
“Common sense often makes a good law.” —William O. Douglas
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” —John Adams
“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.” —Horace
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.” —Horace
“Justice is a fading light.” —Sheryl Crow
“Moderation is the basis of justice.” —George MacDonald
“Extreme justice is often injustice.” —Jean Racine
“Justice may wink a while, but see at last.” —Thomas Middleton
“I think the first duty of society is justice.” —Alexander Hamilton
“If you want peace work for justice.” —Pope John Paul II
“Justice from Love, and Love from Justice.” —Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
“The foundation of justice is good faith.” —Cicero
“Love is stronger than justice.” —Sting
“The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.” —Sophocles
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” —Cornel West
“Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.” —Oscar Arias
“In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.” —Lenny Bruce
“Justice and truth are the common ties of society.” —John Locke
“A rule isn’t unfair if it applies to everyone.” —Unknown
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.” —Mary Wollstonecraft
“The essence of justice is mercy.” —Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Justice is truth in action.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.” —Unknown
“There can’t be peace in the world if there isn’t justice.” —Barbara Wiedner
“Justice is incidental to law and order.” —John Edgar Hoover
“Peace without justice is tyranny.” —William Allen White
“Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.” —Scottish
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.” —Socrates
Justice Sayings
“Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.” —Lydia Maria Child
“Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens.” —African proverb
“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
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes, when you’re on the side of justice, things just seem to go your way.” —Unknown
“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
“True peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice.” —Jane Addams
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” —Desmond Tutu
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” —Robert Frost
“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” —Gloria Steinem
“The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.” —George Whitefield
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.” —Daniel Webster
“Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established.” —Hammurabi
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.” —Daniel Defoe
“One man’s justice is another’s injustice. One man’s beauty another’s ugliness. One man’s wisdom another’s folly.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The task of a judge is not to make the law – it is to apply the law.” —Sonia Sotomayor
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.” —Blaise Pascal
“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.” —Mairead Corrigan Maguire
“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.” —Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” —Augustine
“Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.” —Marcus Tulius Cicero
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” —Malcolm X
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” —Ralph Nader
“There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.” —Emilie Autumn
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” —Lois McMaster Bujold
“Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.” —Edgar Argo
“My path in life led me to involvement in several movements for social justice and change.” —Marilee Karl
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” —Aristotle
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” —Reinhold Niebuhr
“People who don’t expect justice don’t have to suffer disappointment.” —Isaac Asimov
“Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.” —Epicurus
“Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute.” —Edison Haines
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” —Malcolm X
“If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.” —Josephine Ruffin
“Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.” —William Gaddis
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.” —Daniel Defoe
“Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.” —James J. Corbett
“The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.” —Jean Genet
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” —George Washington
“Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.” —Samuel Butler
Top Ten Justice Sayings
Here you will find top ten justice sayings selected by our team.
- “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” —Orson Welles
- “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.” —Francis Bacon
- “Common sense often makes a good law.” —William O. Douglas
- “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The foundation of justice is good faith.” —Cicero
- “Extreme justice is often injustice.” —Jean Racine
- “It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.” —Bob Enyart
- “Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “Justice delayed is justice denied.” —William E. Gladstone
