Quotes on Justice

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
   — Groucho Marx

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
   — James A. Garfield

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
   — Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
   — Plato

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
   — J. R. R. Tolkien

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
   — Frederick Douglass

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
   — Corazon Aquino

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
   — Montesquieu

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
   — Eleanor Roosevelt

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
   — Samuel Johnson