Welcome to the world of justice quotes, where the power of words meets the pursuit of fairness and righteousness. Throughout history, great minds and influential figures have articulated profound thoughts and wisdom on the concept of justice. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, looking to reinforce your convictions, or simply in search of thought-provoking words to share with others, this page is a treasure trove of justice-related quotes. From the realms of philosophy to the corridors of law and beyond, these quotes encompass a diverse range of perspectives, shedding light on the multifaceted nature of justice. Below, you’ll find a collection of compelling justice quotes that you can use in various creative ways – whether you choose to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts, these quotes are a powerful testament to the enduring quest for fairness and equality.
I think the first duty of society is justice. Alexander Hamilton
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Friedrich Schiller
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. Thomas Jefferson
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. Orson Welles
We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us. Barbara Boxer
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice – that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution. Michael J. Knowles
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. Ralph Nader
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. Cesar Chavez
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice delayed is justice denied. William E. Gladstone
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. Henry Louis Gates
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. John Donne
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. Maya Angelou
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, Jr.
Justice is the sum of all moral duty. William Godwin
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. Desmond Tutu
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity. Frank Serpico
As president, I will only nominate judges – including Supreme Court justices – who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women’s reproductive rights. Kirsten Gillibrand
More law, less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. Coretta Scott King
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
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. Afrika Bambaataa
Fairness is what justice really is. Potter Stewart
Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there’s no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’ Claudette Colvin
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Jose Rizal
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. Alice Walker
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr
Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. Louis Farrakhan
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues. Bernie Sanders
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? Khalil Gibran
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism. Narendra Modi
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. Epicurus
Peace without justice is tyranny. William Allen White
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. Mark Pryor
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
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. H. Rap Brown
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. Jonathan Sacks
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. Ban Ki-moon
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. Terry Waite
Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world. Guy Ryder
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all. Fidel Castro
If you want peace work for justice. Pope Paul VI
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. Martin Luther
Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. Queen Elizabeth II
Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice. Leana S. Wen
Juvenile justice is probably the area that’s most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there’s no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain. Robert Sapolsky
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. Kim Campbell
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. Corazon Aquino
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. Thucydides
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle
Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation. Sadiq Khan
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James Baldwin
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. King Solomon
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. Mahatma Gandhi
Justice is revenge. Saad Hariri
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. George Washington
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Adam Smith
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza
When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom! Laurie Anderson
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must. Jean-Claude Juncker
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. Dalai Lama
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law. Imran Khan
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. Robert Kennedy
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. Denis Diderot
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. Francis Bacon
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’ Sophocles
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality. Evo Morales
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. St. Jerome
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. Norman Borlaug
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice. Amanda Gorman
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. Aeschylus
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control. Q’orianka Kilcher
Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences. Ben Shapiro
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. Alan Dershowitz
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. bell hooks
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. David Baldacci
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H. L. Mencken
There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court. Clarence Darrow
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. J. Edgar Hoover
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson