3,189 Quotes About Justice

In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

The trouble was, no one thought about the victims any more. It was all about human rights for the criminal. Injustice was the name of the game now.

He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he doesn't do this to dissuade them from worshipping God; on the contrary, he encourages them to do so. What he insists on is that they not love God under a misapprehension, that if they wish to love God, they be prepared to do so no matter His intentions. God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.

It is well to remember that any man who denies justice to someone he hates prepares the way for a denial of justice to someone he loves.

There is no greater denial of rights to another human being than ending their life and no authority or ideology has the right to do so outside the law, not in a just society.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Mercy is far better than justice, even if it is your right to ask for it.