Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

Explore a thoughtful selection of justice quotations that illuminate fairness, rights, accountability, and the rule of law. These voices from philosophers, jurists, activists, and writers invite careful consideration of how societies balance individual freedom with collective responsibility. Use these insights to spark dialogue, deepen ethical reflection, and encourage action grounded in equity and due process. Whether you seek inspiration or clarity, the collection offers balanced perspectives that respect complexity without losing sight of dignity and compassion.

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"Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"

George Savile, Politician

George Savile

"The more laws, the less justice"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

Eli Khamarov

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Law, without force, is impotent"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"There is no justice among men"

Nicholas II, Royalty

Nicholas II

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"The time is always right to do what is right"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law"

Imran Khan, Politician

Imran Khan

"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services"

Imran Khan, Politician

Imran Khan

"I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing"

Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary

Gavrilo Princip

"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

Holly Near, Musician

"Democrats have long been the party of voter fraud"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him"

Cardinal Richelieu, Clergyman

Cardinal Richelieu

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is"

Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist

Greta Thunberg

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