Justice Quotes

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them."

"It is the function of the state to enforce and maintain equality of opportunity."

"Power to demand what you believe is justice."

"The equality of rights is the basis of all democracy."

"The natural remedy for an injury is the expression of it."

"Every attempt to reform morality without reforming institutions is useless."

"Inequality is the principal source of all crime and misery."

"There is no such thing as absolute justice; justice is always relative."

"The purpose of government is to insure that the strong shall not oppress the weak."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"The division of labor is the foundation of the division of classes."

"Every historical epoch requires its own understanding of morality and justice."

"It is our job to define and describe, not to judge or condemn."

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

"The prison is the most truthful expression of the state."

"The subordination of women is the first oppression in human history."

"The most dangerous thing is the belief that we can remain neutral in times of injustice."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights."

"The greatest felicity of the greatest number is the measure of justice."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires wisdom and justice."

"The foundation of law is justice; the foundation of justice is truth."

"Property is theft."

"Nature does not produce on the one hand owners of capital and on the other hand workers."

"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"The mass of poverty and misery is produced by the concentration of wealth in few hands."