(2295 quotes found)
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.”
Martin Luther
“Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive”
Earl Warren
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice”
Abraham Lincoln
“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst”
Aristotle
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice”
John Adams