Justice Quotes

"In the eyes of the law, a man is innocent; in the eyes of justice, he is guilty."

"I have known great injustice in this world."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Justice is the foundation of civilization."

"A statesman is an easy man, he does not have to think of consequences."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

"To be just, I should suffer wrong also in my turn."

"We should not judge people by their appearance, but by their actions and character."

"Justice delayed is a wound that never fully heals."

"Women are the sport of circumstance as much as men, though society denies them the agency to shape their own fate."

"We punish those who expose our comfortable lies."

"The poor are not noble in their suffering; they are merely poor."

"The law protects property far more zealously than it protects people."

"The pursuit of justice often creates greater injustices along the way."

"Women are not more frivolous than men, only less seriously treated."

"Where equality is impossible, justice is impossible."

"The law is only one aspect of our moral obligation to each other."

"To be born a woman is to know—although they do not speak of it at school—that silence has been a condition of their existence."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty."

"The law is the embodiment of everything that's exasperating to the criminal, and everything that's comfortable to the law-abiding citizen."

"Justice is the foundation of a just world."

"Justice is an ideal we pursue but rarely capture in its pure form."

"Justice is less about fairness than about maintaining order."

"The formulas of virtue are the same across all lands."

"The health of a society is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable."

"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing"

"If we expect to stop injustice, we must stand against it firmly"

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place"