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1. "There is no true justice. There is only relevant Ministry."

Kazimierz Matan

2. "Equality may perhaps be a right, but it will never be a reality."

Anon.

3. "How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

4. "An unjust law is itself a species of violence."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

5. "For good, return good. For evil, return justice."

Anon.

Quotations about: Good and Evil

6. "There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Frank Buchman, "Remaking the World"

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Richness and Money

7. "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

8. "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Patriotism

9. "Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

10. "The difference between outlaws and inlaws is outlaws are wanted."

Anon.

Quotations about: Law and Crime

11. "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

12. "He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Anger

13. "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

Elie Wiesel

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

14. "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong, they are conflicts between two rights."

Friedrich Hebbel

Quotations about: Good and Evil

15. "He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

16. "Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

17. "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

18. "Some people are born hammers, others anvils."

proverb

Quotations about: Various

19. "It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Law and Crime

20. "Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

Horace Walpole, "Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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21. "People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."

E. B. White

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

22. "In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotations about: Good and Evil

23. "Let justice be done, though the world perish."

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, (his motto)

24. "Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

25. "Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing."

Elias Canetti, "Crowds and Power"

26. "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."

Francis Bacon

27. "Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."

St. Ambrose, "De bono mortis"

Quotations about: Life and Death

28. "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

Charles Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit"

29. "Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."

Thrasymachus

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

30. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Anger

31. "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. "

Lillian Hellman

32. "The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."

Aeschylus, "The Libation Bearers"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

33. "Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."

Aeschylus, "Agamemnon"

34. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

35. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Various

36. "Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

37. "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

Georges Clemenceau

38. "No one should be judge in his own case."

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

39. "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

40. "Men are born equal but they are also born different."

Erich Fromm

41. "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Steve Biko

Quotations about: Good and Evil

42. "Justice delayed is justice denied."

William Ewart Gladstone

43. "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead."

gen. Omar Bradley

Quotations about: Peace and War

44. "Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: History and Nations

45. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Human -:- Sin and Conscience

46. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: History and Nations

47. "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

Friedrich von Schiller

48. "The world is composed of givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

Anon.

Quotations about: Good and Evil

49. "In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel."

Sir James Mathew

50. "There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."

Hubert Humphrey

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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