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 and order arise from understanding nature's true structure."
Anaxagoras
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime among men."
Aristophanes
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"Women possess the same capacity for wisdom as men, yet society denies them the opportunity to acquire it."
Aristophanes
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"The pursuit of justice requires that we first understand that we ourselves are capable of profound injustice."
Aristophanes
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"A nation that permits its poor to languish will eventually be consumed by their desperation."
Aristophanes
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"Unjust speech is not law, and right reason should be followed."
Euripides
E
"Justice delayed is justice denied for all men."
Euripides
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"Observe the heavens and you shall understand the nature of justice itself."
Anaximander
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"To live justly is to align oneself with the eternal order of nature."
Anaximander
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"In justice lies the reflection of cosmic order among human affairs."
Anaximander
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"If you remove the unjust, you will find no one left."
Democritus
D
"The man who makes a fair compact with another should not play false."
Democritus
D
"Generosity is the flower of justice."
Democritus
D
"The man who is not angry at the wicked is himself wicked."
Democritus
D
"Goodness and badness are defined by the laws of the state."
Democritus
D
"The man who commits injustice is more unhappy than the man who suffers it."
Democritus
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"All discord arises from the uneven distribution of the fundamental substance."
Anaximenes
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"Justice requires balance in all things"
Empedocles
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"A just man will not commit injustice to avoid an enemy"
Sophocles
S
"Laws written in stone without hearts moved to follow them are merely words"
Sophocles
S
"To pursue what is right is to pursue what is eternal"
Sophocles
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"Where unjust laws exist, the just must break them."
Euripides
E
"To do wrong is worse than to suffer wrong."
Euripides
E
"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Euripides
E
"Justice exists only when each element receives its due proportion and place."
Empedocles
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"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."
Aristophanes
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"A society is only as strong as its weakest member, and only as just as its treatment of that member."
Aristophanes
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"Justice is a concept we invented to feel better about punishment."
Frankie Boyle
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Frankie Boyle
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"The cosmos does not judge; it simply transforms and renews."
Anaximander