Quotes About Justice

Even our best endeavors turn against us. A loom that can do the work of eight men should free eight men from servitude. Instead, seven skilled men are put out of work to starve with their families, and one skilled man because the unskilled minder of the mechanical loom. What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer?

Are you like all other men after all? The poor should have no justice, just as they have no food, no decent shelter, no regular livelihood? Is that how your saviour Jesus treated the poor?

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

I may not spare you, I said. For I would rather spare all those who would come into contact with you, were you to be left alive.

you believe that if every person had enough money, enough work, enough leisure, enough learning, that if they were not oppressed by those above them, or fearful of those below them, humankind would be perfected? Byron asked this in his negative drawl

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.

We may add that frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or remissness on the part of the government. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.

Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.

When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.

Grocio niega que todo poder humano se haya establecido en favor de los gobernados, y pone por ejemplo la esclavitud. La manera de discurrir, que más constantemente usa, consiste en establecer el derecho por el hecho.(1) Bien podría emplearse un método más consecuente, pero no se hallaría uno que fuese más favorable a los tiranos.

mientras que un pueblo se ve forzado a obedecer, hace bien, si obedece; tan pronto como puede sacudir el yugo, si lo sacude, obra mucho mejor; pues recobrando su libertad por el mismo derecho con que se la han quitado, o tiene motivos para recuperarla, o no tenían ninguno para privarle de ella los que tal hicieron. Pero el orden social es un derecho sagrado que sirve de base a todos los demás. Este derecho, sin embargo, no viene de la naturaleza; luego se funda en convenciones.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.

This is how in every condition the guilty strong person saves himself at the expense of the innocent weak one...

Reconcile those who are at strife, prevent lawsuits; incline children to duty, fathers to kindness; promote happy marriages; prevent annoyances; freely use the credit of your pupil's parents on behalf of the weak who cannot obtain justice, the weak who are oppressed by the strong. Be just, human, kindly. Do

Yo, por un cúmulo de males de todo género, había de servir de ejemplo a todo aquel que, inspirado por el solo amor del bien público y de la justicia, se atreva, escudado únicamente en su inocencia, a decir a los hombres la verdad abiertamente, sin apoyarse en las intrigas y

la fréquence des supplices est toujours un signe de faiblesse ou de paresse dans le gouvernement. Il n'y a point de méchant qu'on ne pût rendre bon à quelque chose.

Según esto, ¿en qué consiste un derecho que se acaba cuando la fuerza cesa? Si se ha de obedecer por fuerza, no hay necesidad de obedecer por deber; y cuando a uno no le pueden forzar a obedecer, ya no está obligado a hacerlo.