Justice has a nose of wax. [ German Proverb ]
Lenity is part of justice. [ Joubert ]
Justice is truth in action. [ Joubert ]
Much law but little justice. [ Proverb ]
He who is only just is cruel. [ Byron ]
Justice is simple, truth easy. [ Lycurgus ]
Delay of justice is injustice. [ Landor ]
Love is more just than justice. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Favour and gifts disturb justice. [ Danish Proverb ]
Fidelity is the sister of justice. [ Horace ]
Revenge is a kind of wild justice. [ Bacon ]
Gratitude is a species of justice. [ Johnson ]
Expediency often silences justice. [ Seneca ]
Justice delayed is justice denied. [ Gladstone ]
Moderation is the basis of justice. [ George MacDonald ]
Violence does ever justice unjustly. [ Carlyle ]
Generosity is the flower of justice. [ Hawthorne ]
Justice is the soul of the universe. [ Omar Khayam ]
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [ Cicero ]
The great soul of this world is just. [ Carlyle ]
Justice without wisdom is impossible. [ Froude ]
Conscience is the chamber of justice. [ Origen ]
Conscience is justice's best minister. [ Lady Montagu ]
Justice always whirls in equal measure. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers. [ William Shakespeare ]
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. [ Proverb ]
Justice pleaseth few in their own house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. [ William Shakespeare ]
Some weep in perfect justice to the dead.
As conscious all their love is in arrear. [ Young ]
He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Let justice be done, and the world perish. [ Proverb ]
Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time.
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. [ Dryden ]
Justice is the great end of civil society. [ David Dudley Field ]
He that buys magistracy must sell justice. [ Proverb ]
The books are balanced in heaven, not here. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. [ Emerson ]
There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]
A basket-justice will do justice, right or wrong. [ Proverb ]
It is the justice's clerk that makes the justice. [ Proverb ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
The strictest justice is often grossest injustice. [ Cicero ]
It is to one's honour to combine justice with law. [ Motto ]
Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. [ Epictetus ]
His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice;
He doth with holy abstinence subdue
That in himself which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others. [ William Shakespeare ]
To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. [ Cicero ]
As often as you do wrong, justice has you on the score. [ Proverb ]
Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. [ Proverb ]
Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own. [ Proverb ]
Justice will not condemn even the devil himself wrongfully. [ Proverb ]
Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety. [ Latin ]
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. [ William Lloyd Garrison ]
Liberty has no actual rights which are not grafted upon justice. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. [ Lydia Maria Child ]
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. [ Owen Meredith ]
Nothing can be hostile to religion which is agreeable to justice. [ Gladstone ]
Justice is the bread of nations: they are always famishing for it. [ Chateaubriand ]
Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. [ Froude ]
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. [ Confucius ]
Justice is the key-note of the world, and all else is ever out of tune. [ Theodore Parker ]
Candor may be considered as a compound of justice and the love of truth. [ T. Abercrombie ]
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. [ Lord Mansfield ]
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. [ Demosthenes ]
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. [ Bible ]
Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts her eyes on everything deceptive. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
What is justice but another form of the reality we love - a truth acted out? [ Carlyle ]
Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. [ Cicero ]
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]
True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides. [ Addison ]
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [ Seneca ]
Representative government is justice organised, reason in living action, and morality armed. [ Royer Collard ]
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders. [ Fielding ]
It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy. [ Goldsmith ]
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]
When men are friends there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship. [ Aristotle ]
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. [ Amiel ]
Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world. [ Burke ]
Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom. [ John Ruskin ]
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love. [ F. W. Robertson ]
No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. [ Cervantes ]
Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. [ Sallust ]
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. [ Sydney Smith ]
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. [ Bancroft ]
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. [ Pascal ]
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]
Truth, justice and reason, lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied by agreeable manners. [ James Thomson ]
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. [ Theodore Parker ]
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence. [ Adam Smith ]
That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime. [ Cicero ]
Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]
That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. [ Goldsmith ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. [ Goldsmith ]
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people. [ Beaconsfield ]
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. [ Hare ]
There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law, - the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. [ Burke ]
A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]
If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.
Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]
Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]