In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
1. "Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing."
Elias Canetti, "Crowds and Power"
2. "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."
Francis Bacon
3. "Death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked."
St. Ambrose, "De bono mortis"
Other categories: Life and Death
4. "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
Charles Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit"
5. "Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."
Thrasymachus
Other categories: Power and Weakness
6. "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"
Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Anger
7. "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. "
Lillian Hellman
8. "The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
Aeschylus, "The Libation Bearers"
Other categories: Destiny and Fate
9. "Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
Aeschylus, "Agamemnon"
10. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
11. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty."
John D. Rockefeller
Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Various
12. "Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."
Henri-Frederic Amiel
13. "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Georges Clemenceau
14. "No one should be judge in his own case."
Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"
Other categories: Law and Crime
15. "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
Jimmy Carter
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
16. "Men are born equal but they are also born different."
Erich Fromm
17. "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Steve Biko
Other categories: Good and Evil
18. "Justice delayed is justice denied."
William Ewart Gladstone
19. "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
Other categories: Peace and War
20. "Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."
François-René de Chateaubriand
Other categories: History and Nations
21. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Other categories: Human -:- Sin and Conscience
22. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."
Jimmy Carter
Other categories: History and Nations
23. "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
Friedrich von Schiller
24. "The world is composed of givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."
(?)
Other categories: Good and Evil
25. "In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel."
Sir James Mathew
26. "There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
Hubert Humphrey
Other categories: Law and Crime
27. "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Reinhold Niebuhr
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
28. "In violence, we forget who we are."
Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"
Other categories: Human
29. "Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair."
(?)
Other categories: Life and Death
30. "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
31. "In communism, man oppresses man. In capitalism, it's the other way around."
(?)
32. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"
Other categories: Power and Weakness -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
33. "I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day."
Albert Camus, "The Fall"
34. "What is a rebel? A man who says no."
Albert Camus, "The Rebel"
Other categories: Authority, Government
35. "I hate victims who respect their executioners."
Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Condemned of Altona"
36. "It's not a color of skin that should separate people, but a thickness."
Lidia Jasinska
Other categories: Human
37. "Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Law and Crime
38. "Punishment is justice for the unjust."
St. Augustine of Hippo
Other categories: Law and Crime
39. "[...] we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."
Martin Luther King
40. "How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?"
Isaac Bashevis Singer
41. "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Michel de Montaigne
Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil
42. "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
43. "Justice is truth in action."
Benjamin Disraeli, (or Joseph Joubert)
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
44. "An unjust law is no law at all."
St. Augustine of Hippo
Other categories: Law and Crime
45. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King
46. "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
John Stuart Mill
Other categories: Human
47. "It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other."
Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"
48. "The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice."
François de La Rochefoucauld
49. "It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
50. "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
Socrates
Other categories: Forgiveness
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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