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Category: Justice

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

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

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

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

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Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Frank Buchman, "Remaking the World"

Other categories: Egoism -:- Richness and Money

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

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

Thomas Jefferson

Other categories: Patriotism

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

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

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

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Other categories: Law and Crime

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

Anita Brookner

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Anger

11. "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

Other categories: Power and Weakness

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

Friedrich Hebbel

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

14. "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"

Other categories: Richness and Money

15. "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"

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

proverb

Other categories: Various

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Law and Crime

18. "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"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

E. B. White

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, (his motto)

22. "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"

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

Elias Canetti, "Crowds and Power"

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

Francis Bacon

25. "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

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

Charles Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit"

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

Thrasymachus

Other categories: Power and Weakness

28. "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

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

Lillian Hellman

30. "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

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

Aeschylus, "Agamemnon"

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

George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

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

John D. Rockefeller

Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Various

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

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"

Other categories: Law and Crime

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

Jimmy Carter

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

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

Erich Fromm

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

Steve Biko

Other categories: Good and Evil

40. "Justice delayed is justice denied."

William Ewart Gladstone

41. "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

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

François-René de Chateaubriand

Other categories: History and Nations

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Other categories: Human -:- Sin and Conscience

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

Jimmy Carter

Other categories: History and Nations

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

Friedrich von Schiller

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

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Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Sir James Mathew

48. "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

49. "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

50. "In violence, we forget who we are."

Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"

Other categories: Human

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