Saint Augustine Quotes

Justice can send water back uphill.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Shall any man be above justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice?

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

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

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is that virtue that gives every man his due.

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

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.

Every law must be just in every part of it, but if the penalty annexed be unjust, how can it be held forth as a just law?

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 !

There is such a thing as justice which is not necessarily the same thing as law.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

That which is not just is not law.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

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

The law is cruel.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.

Effective action is always unjust.