Quotes
Quotes about Justice
Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
To get Peace you must work for Justice.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
