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