justice Quotes

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:justice democracy

“Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:reason justice

“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

topic:justice responsibility wrong

“to accuse, requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution more resembles justice.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:justice sin

“Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

topic:justice judgement

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

topic:death justice responsibility

“A war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just...”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

topic:war justice

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:knowledge justice independence

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

topic:justice killing

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