"Justice without reconciliation cannot produce lasting peace."
Justice Quotes
By a wide margin the most quotes here are Shakespeare’s, and the two judges who follow him, Lord Mansfield and Lord Kenyon, are a sign that this page leans on the bench as much as the stage. Seneca and John Rawls fill out the top five.
Among the sourced entries, Bierce’s definition from 1911 describes justice as a commodity the State sells to citizens as a reward for their allegiance, taxes and personal service. Sartre’s Dirty Hands (1948) and Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) are here for what they say about guilt, not courts.
Three lines carry flags: Marlowe’s “the justice of my quarrel,” Augustine on charity and withheld justice, and a Martin Luther King Jr. line about peace and justice being goals for man.
"Restorative justice seeks the restoration of harmony rather than revenge."
There is no peace and there can be no progress towards peace without justice.
Peace cannot be sustained without justice, inclusion and mutual respect.
"The palaver is not merely a conversation; it is a way of seeking justice through dialogue."
The way to do complete justice indeed, is to let in the one side, without prejudicing the other.
Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice.
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.