Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"To keep silence about injustice is to become complicit in it."Desiderius Erasmus
"A society is judged not by how it treats its best citizens, but by how it treats its worst."Desiderius Erasmus
"Justice requires the courage to challenge the comfortable."Niccolò Copernicus
"Justice delayed is injustice confirmed."Niccolò Copernicus
"The press is the voice of those who have no other voice."Johannes Gutenberg
"I have built a machine that speaks for the silenced."Johannes Gutenberg
"I have made it possible for the poorest to access what once only the richest could afford."Johannes Gutenberg
"I would rather lose a finger than write with a hand that serves injustice."Thomas More
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied, it is society betrayed."Thomas More
"The true test of a civilization is how it treats its poorest and most vulnerable."Thomas More
"Justice is the glue that holds society together and gives it meaning."Thomas More
"The laws of conscience, which we say nature engrafts in us, are in reality but the laws of custom."Michel de Montaigne
"To accuse is easy; to prove is difficult."Michel de Montaigne
"Of all the vices, the most difficult to root out is cruelty."Michel de Montaigne
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."Diogenes Laërtius
"Justice without wisdom is cruelty."Hypatia
"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."Hypatia
"Justice requires understanding all perspectives."Strabo
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Strabo
"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."Strabo
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Petronius
"Justice is the foundation of society."Petronius
"Justice delayed is justice transformed into tyranny."Diogenes Laërtius
"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."Desiderius Erasmus
"It were absurd to expect dumb animals to obey, who have made no contract with us."Plutarch
"The laws have no power by themselves; they can only work through character."Plutarch
"Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him."Plutarch
"The omission of good is no less a violation of duty than the commission of evil."Plutarch
"Conscience is a thousand witnesses."Michel de Montaigne
"Women should not be excluded from the pursuit of knowledge simply by virtue of their sex."Hypatia