Great Throughts Treasury

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Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Cooperation | Justice | Men | Trust | Wisdom |

David Dudley Field II

Above all others is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is better; but justice excels them all.

Better | Good | Honor | Justice | Success | Wealth | Wisdom |

William Ewart Gladstone

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice | Wisdom |

R. Hertz, fully Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz

The Kaddish is not a prayer for the dead, but a mandate for the living... It bids man rise above his sorrow... and fixes his view upon the welfare of mankind. It lifts his hope and vision to a day... when mankind shall at last inhabit the earth as children of the one God and Father, and justice reign supreme in peace.

Children | Day | Earth | Father | God | Hope | Justice | Man | Mankind | Peace | Prayer | Sorrow | Vision | Wisdom | God |

Thomas Hobbes

To equal justice appertaineth also the equal imposition of taxes; the equality whereof dependeth not on the equality of riches, but on the equality of the debt that every man oweth to the commonwealth for his defense.

Debt | Defense | Equality | Justice | Man | Riches | Wisdom |

Thomas Jefferson

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad... freedom of religion, freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus; and trials by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Age | Commerce | Freedom of religion | Freedom | Government | Justice | Men | Nations | Peace | Persuasion | Principles | Religion | Revolution | Rights | Trials | Wisdom | Friendship | Government |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten... America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness - justice.

Debt | Determination | Greatness | History | Indispensable | Justice | Ugly | Will | Wisdom |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice | Injustice | Justice | Wisdom |

Morris S. Lazaron, fully Morris Samuel Lazaron

The grandeur of natural order, man's pursuit of truth, his appreciation of beauty, his drive toward justice and holiness - it is all one... One God, one Mind, one Will, one Beauty, one Love.

Appreciation | Beauty | God | Justice | Love | Man | Mind | Order | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Appreciation |

Steele Mackaye, fully James Morrison Steele Mackaye

Justice is blind not deaf - Justice listens too much and looks too little.

Justice | Little | Looks | Wisdom |

Maurice Maeterlinck, fully Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck

It is from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Justice | Reason | Wisdom |

Abraham Lincoln

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Better | Confidence | Hope | Justice | People | Wisdom | World |

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti NULL

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Evolution | Experience | Hate | Justice | Men | Reconciliation | Revolution | Salvation | Wisdom |

Alexander Pope

At present we can only reason of the divine justice form what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Ideas | Justice | Life | Life | Man | Present | Reason | Wisdom |

Paul E. Scherer, fully Paul Ehrman Scherer

It has always seemed to me a sad incongruity the way we represent the figure of Justice... Neither the love nor the justice of God is blindfolded.

God | Justice | Love | Wisdom | God |