Quotes about Justice
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.
— Ludwig Borne
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?
— Barack Obama
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love
— Mother Teresa
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
— William Hazlitt
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.
— Joseph Addison