Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

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