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