Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice."Adam Smith
"Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice."Adam Smith
"Society cannot exist unless the rules of justice are maintained."Adam Smith
"The property of the rich is defended by the virtue of the poor."Adam Smith
"Justice emerges only through the conflict and reconciliation of opposing forces."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Justice requires understanding all perspectives within a unified whole."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."Thomas Hobbes
"Justice is the making of an inequality equal."Thomas Hobbes
"Where there is no common power, there is no law, and where no law, no injustice."Thomas Hobbes
"Obedience to the sovereign is the foundation of justice."Thomas Hobbes
"The law is a command backed by sufficient force."Thomas Hobbes
"The dignity of man is his birthright."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"We must build a society where all men are valued."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"The poor man's struggle is the rich man's responsibility."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"The foundation of justice is good faith."John Locke
"Just government cannot subsist without a good moral foundation."John Locke
"Where there is no property there is no injustice."John Locke
"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a universal law of nature."Immanuel Kant
"An unjust law is a contradiction in itself."Immanuel Kant
"Justice demands that we treat all people as we would wish to be treated."Immanuel Kant
"Cuando un gobierno no respeta los derechos de la minoría, cesa de ser democracia."Benito Juárez
"La justicia es la base de toda paz verdadera."Benito Juárez
"Un gobierno que no respeta las leyes que ha dictado, no merece respeto."Benito Juárez
"Que el derecho triunfe sobre la fuerza bruta."Benito Juárez
"La justicia ha llegado a ser lo que es, porque los hombres la han convertido en su derecho."Benito Juárez
"La justicia es el alma de la sociedad civil."Benito Juárez
"El respeto a la ley es el fundamento de toda sociedad."Benito Juárez
"La justicia es la única base legítima del poder."Benito Juárez
"La justicia retrasada es justicia negada."Benito Juárez