Justice quotes

Discover inspiring quotes on justice - the bedrock of a fair society. Explore profound insights, empowering words, and timeless wisdom on the pursuit of truth, equality, and righteousness. Feed your quest for a better world with these compelling justice quotes.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

- Lactantius

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

- Potter Stewart

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

- Robert Mueller

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

- Bill Scott

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

The essence of justice is mercy.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

I need to retire from retirement.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

- Algernon Sydney

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

- Aeschylus

There is no truly global justice.

- Ralph Steadman

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

- Robert Mueller

Justice is revenge.

- Saad Hariri

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

- Francis Bacon

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

- Hugo Black

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

- J. B. Morton

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

- Pat Roberts

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

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

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

- Charles de Secondat

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

- Robert Mueller

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

- Ricardo Lagos