Quotes About Justice

is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

Por tanto, del hombre justo hay que pensar que, si vive en pobreza o en enfermedades o en algún otro de los que parecen males, todo ello terminará para él en bien sea durante su vida, sea después de su muerte. Porque nunca será abandonado por los dioses el que se esfuerza por hacerse justo y parecerse a la divinidad, en cuanto es posible al ser humano la práctica de la virtud. -Es de creer -dijo- que el tal no será abandonado por su semejante.

You're not thinking straight, sir, if you think that a man who's any use at all should give any opposing weight to the risk of living or dying, instead of looking to this alone whenever he does anything: whether his actions are just or unjust, the deeds of a good or bad man.

it is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

Sócrates, cita atribuida por Platón Es peor cometer una injusticia que padecerla porque quien la comete se convierte en injusto y quien la padece no.

Then I showed again, not in words but in action, that, if it were not rather vulgar to [d]say so, death is something I couldn't care less about, but that my whole concern is not to do anything unjust or impious.

Lo mío es obedecer a la ley y abogar por mi causa.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.

The unjust man enjoys life better than the just. book 2

In a city composed wholly of good men there would be a great unwillingness to rule

Justice is effective coordination in the affairs of a state

he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.

All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Hay en un Estado señal más segura de una mala y viciosa educación que la necesidad de médicos y de jueces hábiles no sólo para los artesanos y pueblo bajo, sino también para los que se precian de haber sido educados como hombres libres? ¿No es cosa vergonzosa y una prueba insigne de ignorancia el verse forzado a acudir a una justicia extraña por no ser uno mismo justo, y el convertir a los demás en dueños y jueces de su derecho?

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

In a city of good men, if it came into being, the citizens would fight in order not to rule, just as they now do in order to rule.

justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him

The law is not concerned with making any one class in the city do outstandingly well, but is contriving to produce this condition in the city as a whole.

The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong , whether it is what a good man does or a bad man.

This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice;--it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

qué Estado puede subsistir, si los fallos dados no tienen ninguna fuerza y son eludidos por los particulares?

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of why makes him a man