quotations about justice
As for justice, who has once seen it done?
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Winterset
Justice without charity is at best a dutiful stepmother.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.
PIERRE VERGNIAUD
speech, Jan. 17, 1793
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Guardian, Jul. 4, The Guardian, Jul. 4, 1713
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
Many remark justice is blind; pity those in her sway, shocked to discover she is also deaf.
DAVID MAMET
Faustus
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
DANIEL DEFOE
Shortest Way with Dissenters
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
In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
"A Dialogue", The Shorter Leibniz Texts
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
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
Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.
BIBLE
Psalms 106:3
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
JOSEPH ROUX
Meditations of a Parish Priest
The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.
XENOPHON
Oeconomicus: On the Management of a Farm and Household
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice