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