Quotes about Justice
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
— Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
— Herbert Hoover
Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
— Herman Melville
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
— JRR Tolkien
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
— John Milton
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
— John Milton
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
— St. Thomas Aquinas