JUSTICE QUOTES III

quotations about justice

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

CHARLES WAGNER

Justice

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Justice is the great end of civil society.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

speech, Mar. 1885

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

DANIEL WEBSTER

speech, Sep. 12, 1845

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The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, Ajax the Locrian

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There is a certain attitude of mind that underlies the theory of justice and that ought to be strengthened by the experience of complex equality: we can think of it as a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. Not the opinions of this or that individual, which may well deserve a brusque response: I mean those deeper opinions that are the reflections in individual minds, shaped also by individual thought, of the social meanings that constitute our common life. For us, and for the foreseeable future, these opinions make for autonomous distributions; and every form of dominance is therefore an act of disrespect. To argue against dominance and its accompanying inequalities, it is only necessary to attend to the goods at stake and to the shared understanding of these goods. When philosophers do this, when they write out of respect for the understandings they share with their fellow citizens, they pursue justice justly, and they reinforce the common pursuit.

MICHAEL WALZER

Spheres of Justice

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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

ANATOLE FRANCE

Crainquebille

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

H. L. MENCKEN

Prejudices

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Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Dec. 5, 1955

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Justice like the sunflower hangs its head on the sunny side.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

In Evil Hour

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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.

ARISTOTLE, Politics

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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

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Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

FRANK HERBERT

Heretics of Dune

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As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is juster than that which is just.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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Justice without wisdom is impossible.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects

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I'm not so foolish as to think truth and justice must inevitably triumph simply because they deserve to, but liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

DAVID WEBER

By Schism Rent Asunder

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Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

THOMAS NIXON CARVER

Essays in Social Justice

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The safety of the people requireth further from him or them that have the sovereign power, that justice be equally administered to all degrees of people, that is, that as well the rich and mighty as poor and obscure persons may be righted of the injuries done them, so as the great may have no greater hope of impunity when they do violence, dishonor, or any injury to the meaner sort than when one of these does the like to one of them. For in this consisteth equity, to which, as being a precept of the law of Nature, a sovereign is as much subject as any of the meanest of his people.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Guardian, Jul. 4, The Guardian, Jul. 4, 1713

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