"I show it most of all when I show justice; For then I pity those I do not know, Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall; And do him right that, answering one foul wrong, Lives not to act another."

"This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh."

"Thyself shalt see the act: For, as thou urgest justice, be assur'd Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir'st."

"He shall have merely justice and his bond."

"O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, But that I did proceed upon just grounds To this extremity."

"I have done the state some service, and they know't; No more of that, I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice."

"The world in which we live falls short in terms of justice in many different ways. We have reason to do what we can to remove diagnosable injustice to the extent possible. Subjecting our values to scrutiny by asking probing questions, drawing on many sources, may be a good beginning. Broadening that exercise by considering the perspectives of others – from far as well as near – would make sense here, for reasons that Smith had discussed with much clarity a quarter of a millennium ago."

"Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice."

"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."

"But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right."

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all — that is, they have authority to claim it for themselves. But under dominion, where it is by common law determined what belongs to this man, and what to that, he is called just who has a constant will to render to every man his own, but he unjust who strives, on the contrary, to make his own that which belongs to another."

"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it."

"Who can compare with justice? It creates life."

"That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed."

"A sense of justice is a noble fancy."

"To assume that international law can be applied at the expense of justice is a contradiction in terms."

"There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew."

"At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full."

"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"Justice, under capitalism, works not from a notion of obedience to moral law, or to conscience, or to compassion, but from the assumption of a duty to preserve a social order and the legal “rights” that constitute that order, especially the right to property. … It comes to this: that decision will seem most just which preserves the system of justice even if the system is itself routinely unjust."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your sins increase."

"Deal justly with your servants in the palace, deal justly before the face of the Sun."

"Fiat justitia, ruat caelum."

"'Equality among human-being can be explained in Justice."

"Nothing is settled till it is settled right."

"There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice."

"Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert."

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."

"Observantior æqui Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi."

"Justice is truth in action."

"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore."

"Justice without wisdom is impossible."

"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."

"Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio."

"The spirits of just men made perfect."

"Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede pœna claudo."

"L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plupart des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice."

"Arma tenenti Omnia dat qui justa negat."

"But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the Truth shall ever come uppermost, And Justice shall be done."

"I'm armed with more than complete steel,— The justice of my quarrel."

"Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs! Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, But always apt to choose the suffering side!"

"A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will."

"Render therefore to all their dues."

"Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera, Aequum licet statuerit, haud æquus fuerit."