quotations about justice
By justice a king gives a country stability.
BIBLE
Proverbs 29:4
Men are always invoking justice; and it is justice which should make them tremble.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles," The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Justice is a glorious and a communicative virtue, ordained for the common good of mankind, without any regard to itself. This it is, that keeps men from worrying one another, and preserves tranquility in the world. It is the bond of human society.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.
KARL KRAUS
"The Good Conduct Medal"
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
Truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State
The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
Sell anything for justice, but look out for counterfeits.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
HOWARD ZINN
A People's History of the United States
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Sentences et Maximes Morales
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
"Secret Trials", Things That Have Interested Me
Justice, when carried to its final conclusion, often results in punishment, conflict, revenge and even war.
MASAO ABE
Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquincy.
ROBERT BROWNING
Cenciaja
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
I'm armed with more than complete steel--
The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Lust's Dominion
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime--namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL
"Human Personally"
If violence is the salvation of the brutes, the salvation of man is Justice.
CHARLES WAGNER
preface, Justice
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
ROGER ZELAZNY
He Who Shapes
Justice often leans to the side of the purse hand.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers