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
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"I have always believed that the basis of all morality is justice."
Benito Juárez
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"The law must protect the weakest as well as the strongest."
Benito Juárez
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Benito Juárez
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"Justice is the highest expression of human dignity."
Benito Juárez
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"The foundation of all law must be morality."
Benito Juárez
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"Justice requires courage to defend the weak."
Benito Juárez
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"The law exists to serve justice, not power."
Benito Juárez
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"The pursuit of justice never ends."
Benito Juárez
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"The rights of minorities must be protected by law."
Benito Juárez
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"A just society protects the dignity of all people."
Benito Juárez
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"The progress of civilization rests on justice."
Benito Juárez
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"A just law reflects the will of the people."
Benito Juárez
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"A nation without justice is destined to fail."
Benito Juárez
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"A just society is built brick by brick over generations."
Benito Juárez
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"A government that ignores justice will face the judgment of history."
Benito Juárez
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"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all callings."
Benito Juárez
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"A just law protects the vulnerable and restrains the powerful."
Benito Juárez
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"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
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"The administration of justice is the great instrument for cementing social union."
Adam Smith
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"Justice is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice of human society."
Adam Smith
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"The spirit of the people is sometimes against the practice of justice."
Adam Smith
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"The sentiment of propriety may be called the sentiment of right and wrong."
Adam Smith
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"A society without justice is like a body without a head."
Adam Smith
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
David Hume
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"Justice is the chief virtue of those who live in society."
David Hume
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"The greatest evil is injustice."
David Hume
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
John Locke
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"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
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"The basis of justice is good faith; that is, truth and honest dealing."
John Locke