Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"The measure of a nation is how it treats the weakest."Juvenal
"When men take justice in their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."Plutarch
"Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel as much indignation at it as those who are."Plutarch
"Wrongdoing often recoils upon the wrongdoer himself."Plutarch
"Humanity is not made better by the scaffold."Plutarch
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and both are equally bitter."Apuleius
"The foundation of justice is faith."Strabo
"The measure of a nation is found in its treatment of strangers."Strabo
"Women should participate fully in the intellectual life of their communities without apology or constraint."Hypatia
"Prejudice is the refuge of the intellectually lazy."Hypatia
"Those who would silence women for the pursuit of knowledge reveal their fear of truth."Hypatia
"Those who would constrain women's minds would constrain the progress of civilization itself."Hypatia
"The marginalized often see truths that the powerful are too comfortable to perceive."Hypatia
"The barriers erected against women are not natural; they are constructed by those who fear female equality."Hypatia
"To accept limitations not imposed by nature but by society is to accept a form of slavery."Hypatia
"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer now."Petronius
"Justice is a debt we owe to those who cannot speak."Petronius
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Diogenes Laƫrtius
"The pursuit of justice is the duty of all."Diogenes Laƫrtius
"The poor are either honest or not; if honest, they are wretched; if not, they are hanged."Juvenal
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Juvenal
"Justice is not merely human law, but a cosmic principle governing all existence."Porphyry
"The merchant who sacrifices ethics for profit loses his very humanity."Porphyry
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."Apuleius
"Justice is the soul of society."Apuleius
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Martial
"Justice is the foundation of society."Martial
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Ambition without ethics is tyranny."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Justice is the pillar of civilization."Ammianus Marcellinus