
„True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.“
— Jane Addams pioneer settlement social worker 1860 - 1935
A collection of quotes on the topic of justice, can, people, doing.
„True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.“
— Jane Addams pioneer settlement social worker 1860 - 1935
„A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.“
— Ralph Nader American consumer rights activist and corporate critic 1934
„A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.“
— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Source: Life Is Worth Living
„Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises…“
— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937
„Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established.“
— Hammurabi sixth king of Babylon -1810 - -1750 BC
Epilogue to the Code of Hammurabi (translated by Leonard William King, 1910). i like potatoes
„Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Context: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
„The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
„Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.“
— Platón Classical Greek philosopher -427 - -347 BC
Total 2365 quotes justice, filter:
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian writer 1918 - 2008
Source: Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 33.
— Chuba Okadigbo Nigerian politician 1941 - 2003
Source: Fani-Kayode urges Buhari to take Okadigbo’s advice, Ifreke Inyang, 23 October 2017, Daily Post, Nigeria, 18 April 2018 http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/23/fani-kayode-urges-buhari-take-okadigbos-advice/,
— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
Interview http://veja.abril.com.br/240210/candidata-conquista-ninho-p-050.shtml to Veja magazine, February 24.
2010
„The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
„The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.“
— Ravi Zacharias Indian philosopher 1946
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Page 28
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
— Pierre Joseph Proudhon French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist 1809 - 1865
— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005
Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," http://womenshalloffame.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117 Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday (1990-02-04)
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Context: 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. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
— Claudette Colvin African-American civil rights movement leader 1939
Claudette Colvin http://www.biography.com/people/claudette-colvin-11378 at biography.com, accessed 2 Nov 2013.
— Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov Bulgarian philosopher 1900 - 1986
The Yoga of Nutrition, Editions Prosveta, 2012 ebook edition, pp. 24 https://books.google.it/books?id=jnoVCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24-25.
— Siad Barre Head of State of Somalia 1919 - 1995
Speech (1972), as quoted by Ioan Myrddin (1980), A Modern History of Somalia, Wilture Enterprises (International) Ltd.
— Louis IX of France King of France 1214 - 1270
A justices tenir et à droitures soies loiaus et roides à tes sougiez, sans tourner à destre ne à senestre, mais adès à droit, et soustien la querelle dou povre jeusques à tant que la verités soit desclairie.
Page 348. http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/chroniq/joinv/JV145.htm
To his successor Philippe.
Jean de Joinville Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz nostre roy saint Looys
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, v. Umbehr, 518 U.S. 668 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=U20028&friend=oyez, No. 94-1654 (1996, dissenting); decided June 28, 1996.
1990s
— Julian Assange Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist 1971
[Mark, Tran, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-freedom-speech-wikileaks?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=990, Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech, The Guardian, February 12, 2010, 2010-06-17]
— James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836
They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.
Speech in the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, on the Question of the Ratio of Representation in the two Branches of the Legislature (2 December 1829) http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/slavery.html
1820s
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
Baltimore Evening Sun (12 February 1923)
1920s
Context: The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
— Angelo Vulpini Venezuelan recording artist 2003
Source: Posted on instagram @angelovulpini, September 2nd, 2021. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTVVtsfrRvh/
Source: https://quotepark.com/suggestions/create-quote/author/?originator_name=Angelo%20Vulpini
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (2011), p.397
„If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variant: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
„Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.“
— Helder Camara Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1909 - 1999
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/223/mode/2up
On the Basis of Morality (1840)
Source: The Basis of Morality
„Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.“
— Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937
„Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.“
— John Calvin, book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
„Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.“
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019
— Muhammad al-Baqir fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams 677 - 733
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 298
— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1919 - 1980
Page 233
Publications, Mission for my Country (1961)
— Patrice Lumumba Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed 1925 - 1961
Letter to his wife (Congo, My Country)
„There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.“
— John Locke, book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
„The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.“
— Friedrich Schiller German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759 - 1805
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 324
— Spiro Agnew 39th Vice President of the United States 1918 - 1996
Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 28, 1970); reported in Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew (1971), p. 135.
— Julian Assange Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist 1971
[Julian Assange Interviewed by John Pilger, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUq0kYV-8Q]
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher 1949
"The Future of Liberalism - A Plea For A New Radicalism" http://www.hanshoppe.com/publications/hoppe-plea.pdf
— Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1947
About the arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh. Iran: Lawyers' defence work repaid with loss of freedom, 1 October 2010, Human Rights Watch, 26 April 2011, https://www.webcitation.org/6BiSr3nos, 26 October 2012 https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2010/10/01/iran-lawyers-defence-work-repaid-loss-freedom,
— Démosthenés ancient greek statesman and orator -384 - -322 BC
Olytnhiac II, 10 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070%3Aspeech%3D2%3Asection%3D10
Original: (el) ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher 1949
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State http://www.mises.org/etexts/intellectuals.asp (21 July 2006)
— Joseph E. Stiglitz American economist and professor, born 1943. 1943
Interview on Bebbe Grillo's Blog http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2007/01/stiglitz.html, January 2007.
— Jürgen Habermas German sociologist and philosopher 1929
Habermas (2006) "Conversation about God and the World." Time of transitions. Cambridge: Polity Press, p. 150-151.
„Justice is to be found only in the imagination.“
— Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833 - 1896
— Olavo de Carvalho Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy 1947
Diário do Comércio - Causas Sagradas http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/120117dc.html (17 January 2012)
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, 532 U.S. 661 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=00-24 (2001) (dissenting).
2000s
„This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.“
— Thomas Browne, book Religio Medici
Section 38
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
— Bernie Sanders American politician, senator for Vermont 1941
In a email message to his delegates — Sanders's full message: Movement damaged by 'booing, walking out' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics-live/liveblog/democratic-national-convention-updates/?tid=ss_tw#8cab91a2-7c6f-4a9f-97ff-d42dffa875e4, The Washington Post (25 July 2016)
2010s, 2016
— Dante Alighieri, book Paradiso
Canto XIX, lines 58–63 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
— John Locke, book Two Treatises of Government
Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=gRNDLAK4kPUC&pg=PA281
— David Maraga 1951
October 2016 when he was being Interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission [citation needed]
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District, 508 U.S. 384, 398-99 (1993) (concurring) (citations omitted).
1990s
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
On the court's lack of authority regarding the right to die: Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=497&invol=261&friend=oyez (1990) (concurring).
1990s
— Ali al-Hadi imam 829 - 868
for sure
Muhsin al-Amīn, ‘Ayān ush-Shī‘ah, vol.2, p. 39.
Religious Wisdom
— William Wilberforce English politician 1759 - 1833
"On the Horrors of the Slave Trade", speech delivered in the House of Commons (12 May 1789).
— Daniel O'Connell Irish political leader 1775 - 1847
Speech given at a ‘monster’ meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.
— Hans Kelsen Austrian lawyer 1881 - 1973
"What Is Justice?" (1952), published in What is Justice? (1957)
„Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.“
— John Ray British botanist 1627 - 1705
Source: English Proverbs (1670), p. 94
— Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005
‘Suffering and Speech’ in Catherine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (eds) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings.
— William Greenough Thayer Shedd American theologian 1820 - 1894
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 267.
— Horatio Nelson Royal Navy Admiral 1758 - 1805
In response to the cheer that was raised after he sent the signal "England expects every Man will do his Duty.", as quoted in The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordship's Manuscripts (1810) by James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur, p. 667
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher 1949
"Rothbardian Ethics" (20 May 2002) http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe7.html
„There is no freedom without justice.“
— Simon Wiesenthal Austrian Holocaust survivor noted for his work as a Nazi hunter 1908 - 2005
Although this maxim is associated with Wiesenthal (e.g. "Honoring Simon Wiesenthal", Congressional Record—House, Vol. 151, Pt. 15, 21 September 2005, p. 20804), he did not originate the quote, which appears in the context of the labor movement in the 19th century (e.g. Alexander Spencer, "Maintain Your Union", The Typographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, 1 April 1897, p. 266).
Misattributed
— Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet 1872 - 1950
August 7, 1909
India's Rebirth
— Al-Farabi Philosopher in 10th century Central Asia 872 - 951
H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428, 461 http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-5525.ZD.html (2000) (dissenting).
2000s
— Melanie Joy, book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2010), p. 139
— Luis Muñoz Marín American politician 1898 - 1980
Quoted by TIME Magazine on March 31, 1941 when commenting on Puerto Rican jíbaros accepting $2 bribes for their votes. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765338-1,00.html
— Robert Gilpin Political scientist 1930 - 2018
War and Change in World Politics (1981)
— Simón Bolívar Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador 1783 - 1830
As quoted in The World’s Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, edit., Dover Publications Inc. (1958) p. 388
The Angostura Address (1819)
— Knut Hamsun Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859 - 1952
An obituary for Adolf Hitler, Aftenposten (7 May 1945)
„The Holy Christian Church is the principal work of God“
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
In The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship, 2003, Jeffrey J. Meyers, Canon, Pr., , p. 285. http://books.google.com/books?id=6CSuYz4zj8wC&pg=PA285&dq=%22for+the+sake+of+which+all+things+were+made%22++luther&hl=en&ei=dcKXTeK3IZCw0QGkzJCBDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22for%20the%20sake%20of%20which%20all%20things%20were%20made%22%20%20luther&f=false
Auslegung vieler schöner Sprüche aus göttlicher Schrift (Exposition of Many Beautiful Verses from Divine Scripture (selection) (1547)), http://books.google.com/books?id=WCToPQAACAAJ&dq=%22Auslegung+vieler+sch%C3%B6ner+Spr%C3%BCche+%22&hl=en&ei=XcOXTbrhFeyD0QGU_YSADA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA
Dr. Martin Luther's Sämmtliche Werke, 1853, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Erlangen, Heyder & Zimmer, vol. 52, p. 324. http://books.google.com/books?id=WsMOAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA324&dq=%22welches+willen+alles+geschaffen+ist,+darinnen+t%C3%A4glich%22&hl=en&ei=FMqXTcuLH8K60QGtgun3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22welches%20willen%20alles%20geschaffen%20ist%2C%20darinnen%20t%C3%A4glich%22&f=false
Context: The Holy Christian Church is the principal work of God, for the sake of which all things were made. In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death... the gift of righteousness and eternal life. (Commentary on Psalm 143:5)