Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"El patriotismo sin justicia es solo fanatismo."Benito Juárez
"Un gobierno justo no tiene nada que temer de la verdad."Benito Juárez
"La justicia no conoce de fronteras ni de clase."Benito Juárez
"La justicia es el único camino hacia la verdadera reconciliación."Benito Juárez
"La justicia retrasada es peor que la injusticia manifiesta."Benito Juárez
"A man's sense of justice often compels him to make sacrifices of his interest."David Hume
"The sense of justice and injustice is not derived from nature, but from education and custom."David Hume
"Justice demands that we consider the circumstances and character of the offender."David Hume
"The measure of a leader is how he treats those with no power."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"A just cause requires an unwavering commitment."Toussaint L'Ouverture
"Justice and injustice are not real properties but notions of imaginative thought."Baruch Spinoza
"To blame others is to misunderstand the nature of causality."Baruch Spinoza
"The sense of justice, therefore, is not founded upon nature, but upon habit and experience."Adam Smith
"The real source of inequality lies not in nature but in society and the institutions which men have created."Adam Smith
"The administration of justice is the supreme function of government; without it, no society can endure."Adam Smith
"The natural aristocracy of virtue has a better claim to authority than the artificial aristocracy of wealth."Adam Smith
"A society that rewards vice and punishes virtue cannot long endure."Adam Smith
"Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice."Thomas Hobbes
"Law is the public conscience."Thomas Hobbes
"Where there is no property there is no injustice."Thomas Hobbes
"Covenants being made by men themselves are made to serve men's purposes."Thomas Hobbes
"Injustice is the violation of covenant."Thomas Hobbes
"The foundation of justice is good faith."Thomas Hobbes
"The greatest work is the liberation of the oppressed."José de San Martín
"Justice delayed is justice denied."José de San Martín
"Every sacrifice brings us closer to justice."José de San Martín
"Donde no hay justicia, no hay verdadera paz."Benito Juárez
"La justicia sin clemencia es tiranía."Benito Juárez
"La justicia es el fundamento de la paz duradera."Benito Juárez
"La justicia social es el pilar de la democracia."Benito Juárez