Justice Quotes

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1

Bible

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. Psalms 66:10

Bible

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Johann von Goethe

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Johann von Goethe

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter

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.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Dan Rather

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Clifford Irving

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

Bruce Oldfield

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

Bruce Oldfield

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

Bruce Oldfield

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

Samuel Johnson

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.

Warren Earl Burger, Frazier v. U