We all seek balance (law or right) in life and hence the need for justice, fairness, and impartial treatment. There’s justice in a law-abiding society especially when the rules and regulations are generally accepted by members of the given society. People tend to seek justice when they are being oppressed, brutalized, and denied their human rights.
Justice and equality, peace and justice, justice, and fairness are common terms that can mean the proper arrangement of people and things to ensure peace, unity, and order.
If one feels that his/her human right is violated, there should be a call for justice through the right process and according to the law instead of planning on self revenge which could go contrary to the constitution.
May the following quotes about justice inspire you to always stand by what is right and be law-abiding, speak up for the downtrodden, and the oppressed.
Let me start by making a list of my favorite top 10 quotes about justice.
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”— Montesquieu
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”— William E. Gladstone
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”— Thomas Jefferson
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”— D. H. Lawrence
“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.”—Louis Farrakhan
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”— Cornel West
“It’s every man’s business to see justice done.”—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“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.”— Haile Selassie
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”—Thomas Jefferson
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”— D. H. Lawrence
“An unjust law is no law at all.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”— Edmund Burke
“Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.”— Agesilaus the Second
“Delay of justice is injustice.”— Walter Savage Landor
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”— Jean Racine
“Fairness is what justice really is.”— Potter Stewart
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”— Isaiah Berlin
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected–those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most!–and listens to their testimony.”— James Baldwin
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”— Albert Einstein
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.”— Austin O’Malley
“Justice is a fading light.”— Sheryl Crow
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.”— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.”— Henry Ward Beecher
“Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.”— Domitus Ulpian
“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.”— Anatole France
“Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.”— Pope Pius XI
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”— Benjamin Franklin
“Justice? — You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.”— William Gaddis
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”— Joseph Addison
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”— Elie Weasel
“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”— Jane Addams
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”— Mahatma Gandhi
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”— Frederick Douglass
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”—Theodore Roosevelt
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity.”— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists…it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.”—Lewis Powell, Jr.
What are your favorite quotes about justice from this compilation and would you like to add any to the list? Leave it in a comment below.
RHB
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