All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Freedom is not enough.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

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

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Justice is truth in action.