Justice Quotes - Page 28

• Justice always whirls in equal measure.

  William Shakespeare

  Equal

  William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”

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• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
  Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  William Shakespeare

  Causes, Beam, Scales

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann (1791). “The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes”, p.256

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• Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Charity

  "A Dialogue". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170, 2006.

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• Comedy is allied to justice.

  Aristophanes

  Lying, Comedy

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• Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

  Benjamin Haydon

  God, Real, Mind

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.468

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• Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

  Edward Coke

  Corn, Fields, Ancient

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• All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

  Amelia Barr

  Brother, Husband, Fighting

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• It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

  Lauren Beukes

  Real, Fiction, World

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• As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Reflection, Past, Equality

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• If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Religious, Men, Thinking

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• I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

  Al Sharpton

  Jobs, Kings, Mean

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• Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Matter, Convenience, Justification

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• Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Fairness And Equality, Liberty, Berlin

  'Two Concepts of Liberty' (1958) p. 10

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• At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

  John H. Vincent

  Debt, Accounts, Paid In Full

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 361, 1895.

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• That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

  Algernon Sidney

  Law, Ought

  Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Gouernment. By Algernon Sidney, Esq; to which are Added, Memories of His Life, and an Apology for Himself ..”, p.56

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• Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Lasts, Sides

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.91, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Wise, Fashion

  "A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority: Occasioned by the Enormous License, and Irreligion of the Times". Book by George Berkeley, 1738.

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• Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Truth, Order, Law

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• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  George C. Homans

  Running, Long, People

  1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

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• mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

  Dean Koontz

  Intelligent, Mercy Of God, Genius

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.245, Penguin

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• Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

  Sallust

  Art, Passion, Government

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• A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

  Frances Harper

  Insecure, Law, Government

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• But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.

  Frances Harper

  Strong, Children, Powerful

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.220, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.260

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• If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

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