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."

"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust."

"Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the gospel; it is the attribute of God."

"The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

"There is a point at which even justice does injury."

"Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo."

"On ne peut être juste si on n'est pas humain."

"Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos."

"Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum."

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth."

"The world is a garden the fence of which is the dynasty. The dynasty is an authority through which life is given proper behavior. Proper behavior is a policy directed by the ruler. The ruler is an institution supported by the soldiers. The soldiers are helpers who are maintained by money. Money is sustenance brought together by the subjects. The subjects are servants who are protected by justice. Justice is something familiar (harmonious) and through it, the world persists. The world is a garden... and then it begins again … they are held together in a circle with no definite beginning or end."