Justice Quotes

"A society must justify itself not through the truth of its claims but through the effectiveness of its mechanisms."

"To live ethically is to take responsibility for who we become and to resist the identities imposed upon us."

"What appears inevitable is contingent, and what seems natural has a history of violence behind it."

"Justice delayed is justice denied, and a government must act with swift decision."

"Power without accountability breeds tyranny; accountability without power breeds chaos."

"A government must act, but it must act with deliberation and respect for the rights of all."

"A government that serves all its people equally serves none perfectly, but serves all justly."

"The foundation of all government is justice; without it, power is mere tyranny."

"The true measure of progress is not how much a nation has, but how justly it distributes what it has."

"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the rights of the savage are the birth rights of human nature."

"Render up, I beseech you, that which is not yours to keep."

"We ought to do whatever we can to lift the condition of the poor."

"Never let the individual be sacrificed to the whole."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Justice will always be as I have configured in my mind."

"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 for the injury."

"The tendency has always been strong in societies to regard as the rightful condition of the weaker sex a state of recognized inferiority to the stronger."

"The equality of women with men cannot be considered as already established, but rather as an ideal toward which we must continuously strive."

"The time is ripe for the great question of women's political equality to be urgently pressed upon the attention of mankind."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator."

"The only thing necessary for the perpetuation of evil is that good men remain silent."

"The capacity for justice makes democracy possible; the inclination to justice makes it indispensable."

"What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or to medicine? The question is upon the system of the means by which it is provided and administered."

"Corruption of the best things produces the worst."

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

"You can never indict a whole people."

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but Can they suffer?"

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and makes it the foundation of morals and legislation."