Justice Quotes

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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
- Erik Pepke

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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
- Socrates

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost

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Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
- Friedrich Ebert

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Poverty is the mother of crime.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

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The more laws the more offenders.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Law never made men a whit more just.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Conscience is the chamber of justice.
- Origen

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Justice is incidental to law and order.
- John Edgar Hoover

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Edmund Burke

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There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.
- Grover Whalen

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Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
- Charles Dickens

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In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
- Lenny Bruce

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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Dolores Ibarruri

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck

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Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
- Judge Sturgess

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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
- Walter Savage

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If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.
- Marian Wright Edelman

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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
- Bishop Desmond

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl Warren

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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Jimmy Carter

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If we’re going to end welfare, the rich should be the first to lose it.
- Mac Morgan

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
- Charles Evans

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
- Keith Richards

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Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
- Edgar Argo

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Ambrose Bierce

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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
- Abel Hermant

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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.
- Isaac Rosenfeld

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Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
- Martin Lowenthal

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A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- Seneca

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It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.
- Mae West

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We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ‘em plenty of publicity.
- Will Rogers

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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
- Earl Wilson

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- Jonathan Swift

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When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation.
- Vanya Cohen

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