Quotes About Justice

You wanted justice and there was none- only love.

It is understandable that honest men should be dead or in prison in a Republic where the President is a criminal and a thief.

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

But not unusual, for good girls sometimes come to bad ends.

That's all it takes, one person crying out in the ethical wilderness, one person and then one more and then another, that's all that's needed to keep the spark of justice alive

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be blamed accordingly.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

Justice is the fundamental virtue of political society, since the order of society cannot be maintained without law, and laws are instituted to declare what is just.

Superiority in war ... cannot surely be a proof of justice, since wars are often unjustly undertaken, and successfully, though wickedly, carried on and concluded.

The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

Reason ... governs like a just and lawful prince, and the little community of man is thus held together and sustained.