Justice Quotes - Page 27

• The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Prayer, Protection, Behalf

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.51

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• The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Mean, Rely Upon, Speech

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• Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Men, Yesterday, Self

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• The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Justice Of God, Injustice

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• Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Should

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• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Angel, Men

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• Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

  Thomas More

  Two, Evil, Greed

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

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• It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Twelve, World

  W. C. Fields (1968). “Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life”

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• All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

  P. D. James

  Believe, Law, People

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• The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

  Confucius

  Men, Comfort, Favors

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• Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Uncertain, Verdict, Injustice

  "Cases in the King's Bench" (1773), Hilary Term, 13 Geo. III, Lofft. 147 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 146), 1904.

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• I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Running, Mean, Wish

  "Case of John Wilkes", 19 How. St. Tr. 1112, 1113; 8. C. 4 Burr. Part IV. 2562, 1763.

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• God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

  Anton Chekhov

  Humility, Patriotism, World

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Guilt, Today, Innocence

  Poetic Justice ch. 2 (1970).

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• Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Arbitration, Charity

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• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Goal, Soul

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• Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

  Luc de Clapiers

  Self, Vices, Reason

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Strong, Law, Two

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• Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Done

  The Fourteen Points, delivered 8 January 1918

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• We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

  Lucy Stone

  Rights, Law, Earning

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• So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

  Molly Ivins

  Fighting, Fighting For Freedom

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• Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Race, Development, May

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• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

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• Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Art, Humble, Character

  Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318

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• I beseech you,
  Wrest once the law to your authority:
  To do a great right, do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Littles, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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