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