H. L. Mencken Quotes

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

The law is cruel.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

I say that justice is truth in action.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

That which is not just is not law.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

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

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Effective action is always unjust.

Justice is that virtue that gives every man his due.