Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice delayed is betrayal of the truth."Baltasar Gracián
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."Baltasar Gracián
"The sun shines upon all without distinction; such should be justice."Giordano Bruno
"Justice delayed is justice denied to generations."Giordano Bruno
"The foundation of justice is good faith."Michel de Montaigne
"The press shall be the voice of those who have no voice."Johannes Gutenberg
"The real evils of life are poverty and disease; we ought to the utmost to combat these."Desiderius Erasmus
"There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."Desiderius Erasmus
"I conceive of nothing so divine as justice."Desiderius Erasmus
"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
"Justice delayed is justice denied to the future."Giordano Bruno
"Justice demands that we see beyond ourselves."Giordano Bruno
"Justice demands we see the universe as it is, not as we wish it to be."Niccolò Copernicus
"Justice requires that we give equal consideration to all evidence."Niccolò Copernicus
"Nothing is so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."Desiderius Erasmus
"The poor need bread; the rich need manners."Desiderius Erasmus
"Man's inhumanity to man is the greatest sin."Desiderius Erasmus
"The duplicity of the press brings democracy to the doorstep of the common man."Johannes Gutenberg
"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
"Justice delayed is justice denied to the forgotten."Giordano Bruno
"Justice is the soul's demand for equilibrium."Giordano Bruno
"Justice requires both compassion and firmness."Giordano Bruno
"The only way to deal with injustice is to cease supporting it."Desiderius Erasmus
"The poor deserve our sympathy and our support, for they are victims of circumstance."Desiderius Erasmus
"The most damning criticism of society is the condition of its poor."Desiderius Erasmus