JUSTICE QUOTES V

quotations about justice

Justice without charity is at best a dutiful stepmother.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

PIERRE VERGNIAUD

speech, Jan. 17, 1793

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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


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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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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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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As for justice, who has once seen it done?

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Winterset

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

BIBLE

Psalms 106:3

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Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.

KARL KRAUS

"The Good Conduct Medal"

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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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Men are always invoking justice; and it is justice which should make them tremble.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles," The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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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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We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

JOSEPH ROUX

Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

"A Dialogue", The Shorter Leibniz Texts

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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

A People's History of the United States

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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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