J Quotes
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“Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization”
“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom”
“Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.”
“Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.”
“Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.”
“Justice. If only we knew what it was.”
“Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.”
“Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.”
Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.”
Source: Anthony Eden
“Justice in the extreme is often unjust.”
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
“Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.”
Source: The Republic
“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”
“Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“Justice is a blindfolded woman.”
“Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.”
“Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.”
Source: Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories
“Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.”
“Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.”
“Justice is a criminal circuit that rapes innocents with electricity framing them as guilty… Never take part in legal procedures! You do not need laws to be ethical! Only criminals need laws! To condemn innocents & break them invisibly!”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“Justice is a descendant of love.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.”
“Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.”
“Justice is a fading light.”
“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.”
Source: The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
“Justice is a jagged road.”
“Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“Justice is a path that is not driven by the greed of today, but which can foresee the losses of tomorrow.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
“Justice is a sense of security found in each one of us.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.”
Source: Wolf Dawn
“Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.”
“Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.”
“Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.”
“Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.”
Source: Torn
“Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.”
Source: The Law
“Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.”
“Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought”
Source: Mythologies
“Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.”
“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”
“Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.”
“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.”
“Justice is blind, until a judge gives it eyes.”