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.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
The essence of justice is mercy.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
The foundation of justice is good faith.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Justice is truth in action.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
— Epicurus
Every offense is avenged on earth.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
— Junius
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
Let justice be done through the heavens fall.
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
— Seneca
Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
— Socrates
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
— Terence
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.