Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal to his punishment.
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
JOSEPH ROUX, Meditations of a Parish Priest
I'm not so foolish as to think truth and justice must inevitably triumph simply because they deserve to, but liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.
DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder
Justice without charity is at best a dutiful stepmother.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.
Justice is the great end of civil society.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, speech, Mar. 1885
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
Sell anything for justice, but look out for counterfeits.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime--namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL, "Human Personally"
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.
If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.
- There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption--
- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow;
- But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level,
- Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Law without justice is a wound without a cure.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
- I'm armed with more than complete steel--
- The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Lust's Dominion
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.
J. M. COETZEE, Waiting for the Barbarians
What is justice in one place is injustice in another.
If justice must be dealt, then let it be dealt, but don't poison yourselves with vengeance.
DAVID WEBER, By Schism Rent Asunder
Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?
SUSANNE ALLEYN, Game of Patience
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