Quotes about Justice

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Temper justice with mercy.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

We forgive but not forgotten