Quotes About Justice

En todos los respectos, pues, el alabador de la justi­cia dirá verdad y mentirá el de la injusticia. Ya se mire al placer, ya a la buena fama, ya al provecho, el que encomia lo justo acierta y el que lo censura no dice nada en razón y ni siquiera conoce lo que censura.

Then this must be our notion of the just man, that even when he is in poverty or sickness, or any other seeming misfortune, all things will in the end work together for good to him in life and death: for the gods have a care of any one whose desire is to become just and to be like God, as far as man can attain the divine likeness, by the pursuit of virtue? Yes, he said; if he is like God he will surely not be neglected by him.

It has been objected that justice is honesty in the sense of Glaucon and Adeimantus, but is taken by Socrates to mean all virtue.

Pues a mi, ni Méleto ni Ánito pueden ocasionarme ningún mal, aunque se lo propusieran. ¿Cómo pueden hacerlo, si estoy plenamente convencido de que un hombre malvado jamás puede perjudicar a un hombre justo?

Y no diremos también, amigo, que los hombres, al ser dañados, se hacen peores en lo que toca a la virtud humana? -Ni más ni menos. -¿ Y la justicia no es virtud humana? -También esto es forzoso. -Necesario es, por tanto, querido amigo, que los hombres que reciben daño se hagan más injustos. -Eso parece.

SOCRATES: And is then all that is just pious? Or is all that is pious just, but not all that is just pious, but some of it is and some is not? [12] EUTHYPHRO: I do not follow what you are saying, Socrates.

the just does not desire more than his like but more than his unlike, whereas the unjust desires more than both his like and unlike

The son of Ariston (the best) is of opinion that the best and justest of men is also the happiest, and that this is he who is the most royal master of himself; and that the unjust man is he who is the greatest tyrant of himself and of his State. And I add further—'seen or unseen by gods or men.' This

Surely the gods are just? Granted that they are. But if so, the unjust will be the enemy of the gods, and the just will be their friend?

but I want you to put him down.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice

the Thirty sent for me" says Socrates ". . .and ordered [me] to bring Leon the Salaminian to be put to death. . .I, however, showed again, by action, not in word only, that I did not care a whit for death. . .but that I did care with all my might not to do anything unjust or unholy… For that government, with all its power, did not frighten me into doing anything unjust…I simply went home.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

Or do you think it possible for a city not to be destroyed if the verdicts of its courts have no force but are nullified and set at naught by private individuals?

Adic? socoÈ›i dreptatea un defect? - Nu, ci doar o nobil? neghiobie. (Trachymarchos în Republica, de Platon)

Por tanto, ven tanto, de los que perciben muchas cosas bellas, pero no ven lo bello en sí ni pueden seguir a otro que a ello los conduzca y asimismo ven muchas cosas justas, pero no lo justo en sí, y de igual manera todo lo demás, diremos que opinan de todo, pero que no conocen nada de aquello sobre qué opinan.

Cuando se suscita en el alma alguna rebelión, la cólera toma siempre las armas en favor de la razón.

Hé bien, prolonge pour moi la joie du festin, en continuant à répondre. Nous venons de voir que les hommes justes sont meilleurs, plus habiles et plus forts que les hommes injustes ; que ceux-ci ne peuvent rien faire de concert ; et c'était une supposition gratuite que de supposer que des gens injustes aient

De modo que, al tratar de ver el alma que es filosófica y la que no, examinarás desde la juventud del sujeto si esa alma es justa y mansa o insociable y agreste.

Podrás, pues, censurar un tenor de vida que nadie sería capaz de practicar sino siendo por naturaleza me­morioso, expedito en el estudio, elevado de mente, bien dispuesto, amigo y allegado de la verdad, de la justicia, del valor y de la templanza?

Y así, la posesión y práctica de lo que a cada uno es propio será reconocida como justicia.

there will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men of their class are not obligated to share in the toils of politics: and this is reasonable, for they grow up at their own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.