Top 1200 Justice And Injustice Quotes & Sayings

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates us today...So today, we take up the cause of joining arms with our immigrant brothers and sisters in that spirit... to lend a hand to those who confront injustice as a result of a broken immigration system.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with us for as long as there's injustice, and that doesn't seem to be in short supply.

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

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to find a way to avenge yourself - even by illegal measures. In a sense, injustice is more personal. This idea has always been in Chinese history. I think we read about freedom of speech, or lack of freedom of speech, in China so often. But I don't think people here in America think about how justice, or the idea of justice, is so important in a Chinese setting. It's probably more important than freedom of speech in the Chinese mindset at this moment.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

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.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

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

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

Let's stand together, stick together, and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.

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

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.