Justice Quotes

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

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"The true school of democracy is a sensitive appreciation of the duty of the majority toward the minority."
Pericles
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Pericles
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"Justice is a concept understood by few and practised by even fewer."
Pericles
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"The unjust is never in prosperity, the just always."
Pericles
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"A just law poorly enforced is merely a suggestion to the wicked."
Philip II
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"Mercy without justice is merely indulgence."
Philip II
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"A realm without laws is no realm at all, merely chaos with a crown."
Philip II
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"A kingdom's prosperity is built upon the prosperity of its humblest citizens."
Philip II
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"To defend the defenseless is the truest test of nobility."
Philip II
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Demosthenes
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Demosthenes
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"To question authority is to honor it—through seeking truth."
Aristarchus
"Justice delayed is justice denied; strike while you have the chance."
Leonidas I
"To protect the innocent, one must be willing to face the guilty."
Leonidas I
"The moment a man accepts injustice, he has surrendered his manhood."
Leonidas I
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"Justice requires knowledge and wisdom."
Eratosthenes
E
"Justice serves those who seek truth above all."
Eratosthenes
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"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all human endeavors."
Isocrates
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"To be just is not always to be kind, yet true justice contains within it true kindness."
Isocrates
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Pericles
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"A just society is built on the foundation of truth."
Pericles
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"Every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect."
Pericles
"Justice without strength is merely a whisper in the wind."
Leonidas I
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"The preservation of order requires the occasional sacrifice of mercy."
Philip II
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"To govern justly is to make decisions that satisfy no one completely, yet all partially."
Philip II
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"To rule justly is to make peace between competing claims of righteousness."
Philip II
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"Justice in thought leads to justice in action."
Aristarchus
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"Justice demands that we judge all things by the same standard of truth."
Aristarchus
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"The true measure of civilization is how it preserves and shares knowledge."
Eratosthenes
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"The greatest patron is one who preserves the work of lesser-known thinkers."
Eratosthenes