Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"Justice delayed is betrayal of the truth."
Baltasar Gracián
B
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Baltasar Gracián
G
"The sun shines upon all without distinction; such should be justice."
Giordano Bruno
G
"Justice delayed is justice denied to generations."
Giordano Bruno
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The press shall be the voice of those who have no voice."
Johannes Gutenberg
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"The real evils of life are poverty and disease; we ought to the utmost to combat these."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"I conceive of nothing so divine as justice."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"Nothing is so unequal as equal treatment of unequal people."
Desiderius Erasmus
"A kingdom without mercy is merely a prison with grander walls."
Thomas More
"Where there is no vision of justice, even prosperity becomes a curse."
Thomas More
"The unjust law is no law at all, but merely the decree of power."
Thomas More
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to the future."
Giordano Bruno
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"Justice demands that we see beyond ourselves."
Giordano Bruno
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"Justice demands we see the universe as it is, not as we wish it to be."
Niccolò Copernicus
N
"Justice requires that we give equal consideration to all evidence."
Niccolò Copernicus
D
"Nothing is so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"The poor need bread; the rich need manners."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"Man's inhumanity to man is the greatest sin."
Desiderius Erasmus
J
"The duplicity of the press brings democracy to the doorstep of the common man."
Johannes Gutenberg
J
"The printing press is the technology of human equality."
Johannes Gutenberg
"The measure of a society is found in how it treats its most vulnerable."
Thomas More
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and the poor bear the heaviest burden."
Thomas More
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to the forgotten."
Giordano Bruno
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"Justice is the soul's demand for equilibrium."
Giordano Bruno
G
"Justice requires both compassion and firmness."
Giordano Bruno
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"The only way to deal with injustice is to cease supporting it."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The poor deserve our sympathy and our support, for they are victims of circumstance."
Desiderius Erasmus
D
"The most damning criticism of society is the condition of its poor."
Desiderius Erasmus