Quotes
Quotes about Justice
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The more laws, the less justice.
Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se igitur expetitur.]
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. [Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversus infimos justitiam esse servandam.]
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. [Lat., Observantior aequi Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi.]
Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]
Justice is truth in action.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
