We decided one day to do something for Justice. Beate Klarsfeld
It has been said that I have two alternatives: either go to jail or go to the army. But I would like to say that there is another alternative: and that alternative is Justice. Muhammad Ali
Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? ... Let justice be done though the heavens fall. JFK ***** 1991 starring Kevin Costner & Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones & Kevin Bacon & Laurie Metcalf & Gary Oldman & Michael Rooker & Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau & Joe Pesci & John Candy et al, director Oliver Stone, Garrison
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass
You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick. Sydney Smith
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
And since there’s no justice in earth nor hell,
We will solicit heaven and more the gods
To send down justice for to wreak our wrongs. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus IV iii 50-53
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice IV i 197
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar. William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv 207, Hamlet to Mother
See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thy ear: handy-dandy, which is the thief, which is the justice? William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear IV v @146, Lear
A dog’s obeyed in office.
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand.
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
Thy blood as hotly lusts to use her in that kind
For which thou whip’st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
Through tattered rage small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hides all. ibid. IV v 152, Lear
We still have judgement here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions which, being taught, return
To plague th’ inventor. This even-handed justice
Commends th’ ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I vii @8 Macbeth
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Injustice is relatively easy to bear. What stings is justice. H L Mencken, US editor
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill
These books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka, The Trial
Yet I shall temper so
Justice with mercy. John Milton, Paradise Lost 10:77
To no-one will we sell, to no-one will we refuse or delay, right or justice. Magna Carta article 40
Let justice be done though the heavens fall. Lord Mansfield, Somerset v Stewart, 1772 98 ER
In England, justice is open to all – like The Ritz hotel. James Mathew, Irish judge
The Bush administration has made extraordinary claims and they’ve been upheld by the courts to a large extent. They’ve claimed the right to imprison people including US citizens without charge, without access to lawyers or family and to do so indefinitely until the President declares the emergency over. Professor Noam Chomsky, lecture University of Colorado 5th April 2003
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 11th February 1851
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. Henry Fielding, 1707-54, Tom Jones
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. ibid.
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Justinian I, Institutes book 1 title 1
Justice is incidental to law and order. J Edgar Hoover
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes junior
Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice? Job 8:3
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Ecclesiastes 3:16
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
Smile, Karen, there is justice in the world. Wall Street 1987 starring Michael Douglas & Charlie Sheen & Daryl Hannah & Martin Sheen & John C McGinley & Terence Stamp & James Karen & Jal Hobrook & Sean Young & James Spader et al, director Oliver Stone, Sheen junior
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. Jesse Jackson, ‘Jesse Jackson: The Man, The Movement, The Myth’
The more laws, the less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis I:10
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke, letter 1789
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes. Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Canto II:1,177
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. Che Guevara, speech 1964
We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavour to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice. Hierocles, cited William W Snowden, 1840
I’m armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel. Christopher Marlowe, Lust’s Dominion III:IV