Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"If anyone hates another, he endeavours to remove and destroy him."Baruch Spinoza
"I have always believed that the basis of all morality is justice."Benito Juárez
"The law must protect the weakest as well as the strongest."Benito Juárez
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Benito Juárez
"Justice is the highest expression of human dignity."Benito Juárez
"The foundation of all law must be morality."Benito Juárez
"Justice requires courage to defend the weak."Benito Juárez
"The law exists to serve justice, not power."Benito Juárez
"The pursuit of justice never ends."Benito Juárez
"The rights of minorities must be protected by law."Benito Juárez
"A just society protects the dignity of all people."Benito Juárez
"The progress of civilization rests on justice."Benito Juárez
"A just law reflects the will of the people."Benito Juárez
"A nation without justice is destined to fail."Benito Juárez
"A just society is built brick by brick over generations."Benito Juárez
"A government that ignores justice will face the judgment of history."Benito Juárez
"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all callings."Benito Juárez
"A just law protects the vulnerable and restrains the powerful."Benito Juárez
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and tolerable administration of justice."Adam Smith
"The administration of justice is the great instrument for cementing social union."Adam Smith
"Justice is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice of human society."Adam Smith
"The spirit of the people is sometimes against the practice of justice."Adam Smith
"The sentiment of propriety may be called the sentiment of right and wrong."Adam Smith
"A society without justice is like a body without a head."Adam Smith
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."David Hume
"Justice is the chief virtue of those who live in society."David Hume
"The greatest evil is injustice."David Hume
"Where there is no property there is no injustice."John Locke
"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them."John Locke
"The basis of justice is good faith; that is, truth and honest dealing."John Locke