"Justice" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Justice"

"Justice should be cheap but judges expensive."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Expensive #Justice #Judging

"Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Democracy Freedom #Government Politics #Labor Union

"Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Salvation #Justice #Race

"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Justice #Social Justice #Social

"Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Tension #Justice #Social

"There is no justice in following unjust laws."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Relatable #Unjust #Justice

"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture."

--- Aaron Swartz

#Unjust #Justice #Theft

"A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal."

--- Abba Eban

#Ideals #Justice #Social Justice

"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."

--- Abbie Hoffman

#Justice #Law #Expedience

"Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation."

--- Abdallah II

#Division #Justice #Extremist

"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."

--- Abdoulaye Wade

#Justice #Education #Way

"Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!"

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Justice #Eye #Superiors

"We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Gods Will #Soul #Justice

"But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained."

--- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Justice #Said #All Time

"No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness."

--- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

#Justice #Whole World #World

"Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence."

--- Abe Fortas

#People #Alternatives #Justice

"For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great."

--- Abe Fortas

#Self Revelation #Justice #Revelations

"His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?"

--- Aberjhani

#Fighting #Justice #Achieve

"Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence."

--- Aberjhani

#Justice #Asks #Technicalities

"Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established."

--- Aberjhani

#Justice #Done #Building

"I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance."

--- Abigail Adams

#Our Time #Justice #Feels

"I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise."

--- Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#Justice #Broken Man #Broken

"The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom."

--- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Ignorance #Justice #Rabbi

"The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe."

--- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Ideals #Animal Rights #Justice

"Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Justice #Care #Transcendent

"Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Pulpit #Justice #Legislature

"May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Justice #May #Grants

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Justice #Lawyer #Law

"I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Justice #Miles #No Idea

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Justice #Risk And Failure #Failing

30 "Justice" Quotes