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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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Suetonius
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence."
Suetonius
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"There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience dwelling within."
Plutarch
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"The remedy of injustice is not to do injustice again."
Plutarch
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"It is a rare thing for justice and power to dwell together."
Tacitus
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"What is justice but power made legitimate?"
Tacitus
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Tacitus
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"When the stomach is full, it cares nothing for the law."
Juvenal
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
Juvenal
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"No disease is more dangerous to society than the corruption of virtue."
Juvenal
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"A just man sleeps soundly; a wicked man cannot rest."
Juvenal
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"The measure of a nation is how it treats its weakest members."
Juvenal
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Juvenal
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"Virtue is the only true nobility."
Horace
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"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world."
Horace
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to the suffering."
Martial
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty in another form."
Martial
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"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights."
Livy
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"Justice will only exist when those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are."
Livy
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"Power without justice is tyranny."
Pliny the Younger
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Pliny the Younger
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"A society that values pleasure over virtue inevitably descends into chaos."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"A just punishment is proportionate to the offense, neither excessive nor insufficient."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The measure of a civilization is how it treats those without power."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Authority without accountability breeds tyranny."
Suetonius
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"The corruption of the few spreads like disease through the many."
Suetonius
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"In the end, all men are judged by how they treated the powerless."
Suetonius
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"The law is only as just as those who enforce it."
Tacitus
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"Punishment without justice is merely revenge."
Tacitus
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"Justice delayed is injustice multiplied."
Tacitus