87 quotes
“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?”
"A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time."
— Socrates
"If you want peace work for justice."
— Pope Paul VI
"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."
— Noam Chomsky
"But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty."
— Michel Foucault
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
— Martin Luther King
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
— Francis Bacon
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
— Eisenhower
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
— Daniel Webster
"But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice."
— Brent Weeks
"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."
— Booker T. Washington
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
— Ben Franklin
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
— Saint Augustine
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
— Anatole France
"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
— Alice Walker
"Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say."
— Aristophanes
"Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it."
— William Penn
"Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just."
— Victor Hugo
"...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former."
— Theodore Roosevelt