Anatole France Quotes

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

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.

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

Recompense injury with justice.

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

Justice is incidental to law and order

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The law is cruel.

We've begun to get justice.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

Effective action is always unjust.

…aspiration for justice often finds itself the captive of ideologies which hide or pervert its meaning …

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

If we can't have justice, then nobody will have justice.

The source of justice was the fear of injustice.

The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.