Justice Quotes

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

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"To be a woman in pursuit of knowledge is to be a living challenge to injustice."
Hypatia
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"Those who would limit women's access to education diminish all of humanity."
Hypatia
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"Barriers to women's learning are barriers to human progress itself."
Hypatia
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"Injustice harms the perpetrator more deeply than the victim."
Porphyry
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"Justice requires not punishment, but the restoration of harmony and understanding."
Porphyry
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is injustice delivered."
Petronius
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"Justice without compassion is merely revenge dressed in law."
Petronius
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"Justice is the foundation of all society."
Apuleius
"Justice without mercy becomes tyranny; mercy without justice becomes chaos."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Justice delayed becomes injustice; yet hasty justice becomes cruelty."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Who will guard the guards themselves?"
Juvenal
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"The poor man's tears fall on deaf ears."
Juvenal
J
"The corrupt magistrate fears the honest judge."
Juvenal
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"The poor are always right to be suspicious."
Juvenal
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"Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel the same indignation at it as those who are."
Plutarch
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"Vengeance is a kind of wild justice."
Plutarch
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"The law is a wall between the strong and the weak."
Plutarch
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"The measure of a civilization is found in how it treats those who seek knowledge."
Hypatia
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to the waiting heart."
Apuleius
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"The just man sleeps peacefully, for his conscience is clear."
Apuleius
A
"Justice tempered with mercy is the highest law."
Apuleius
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"Do you know what the evil of this age is? Indifference."
Petronius
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and justice denied breeds revolution."
Petronius
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"Justice is not merely a human convention, but a reflection of cosmic order."
Porphyry
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"Geography reveals that justice is not natural; it must be built by men of understanding."
Strabo
"The disease of justice is indifference."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The soul that does not rebel against injustice is complicit in it."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"A wicked man is his own executioner."
Juvenal
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"The greatest evil is committed in the name of the greatest good."
Juvenal
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Juvenal