Quotes and Sayings about Justice

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.

Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 1 Episode 7

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Air

We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?

Shisui Uchiha in Naruto

Morality

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King - during Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Peace

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

Silk Spectre in Watchmen -

California

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

Duty Freedom Hope Forgiveness & Mercy Honor

In the little world in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

Children & Childhood

Time has a way of shedding light on injustices.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Equality always concerns two parties: the one that's paying and the one that's receiving.

Ursula von der Leyen

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

Freedom

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

Democracy

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Lawyer

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

Fidel Castro

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

I am here to fight for your equality, because I believe that we are all born equal. But we are not treated equally and that is why we must fight.

Logic - bei den 2017 MTV Video Music Awards

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy

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I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Eminem

Tolerance Kindness

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Pocahontas in Pocahontas

Tolerance

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God Tolerance

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

Tarzan

Tolerance

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

Tolerance

Lisa: "What was your booth for again?"
Tom: "It was free legal advice. I'm a lawyer."
Lisa: "So you are a creep."

Lisa in I Believe in Santa

Lawyer

Those who understand the rules can delineate boundaries, and identify gray areas.

Alhaitham in Genshin Impact

Lawyer Rules

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Danny DeVito

Lawyer Nuclear Weapons

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King

Faith

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

V in V for Vendetta

Democracy Governments

Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Cassandra Clare in The Dark Artifices - Lady Midnight

Love declerations

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.

Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 2 Episode 7

Self-Deception

I've only ever regretted the things I didn't do.

Atsushi Nakajima in Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 2 Episode 7

Remorse

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

Freedom Satisfaction Breathing Air

More than love, you seek acknowledgement. More than touch, you crave understanding. More than a lover, you need a friend.

Shisui Uchiha in Naruto

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen -

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

California

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Optimism Pessimism

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Earl Wilson

Duty Temptation

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Forgiveness & Mercy

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