Justice Quotes

"My role is to awaken the consciousness of my country to its responsibilities."

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

"Without culture and relative freedom, society is not worth preserving."

"There is no punishment without a sense of guilt, and no guilt without the possibility of innocence."

"Useless laws weaken necessary laws."

"The throne we honor is the law, and we should sit upon it."

"The greatest monarchs are often the greatest servants of the law."

"The safety of the people is the supreme law."

"The surest way to prevent revolutions is to govern justly."

"Punishment must be swift and certain to deter crime."

"The most successful laws are those least felt."

"A just law is obeyed willingly by the people."

"The grandeur of a nation is measured by its justice, not its wealth."

"Every law that does not come from virtue is a burden on the people."

"Laws should be as few as possible but as clear as necessary."

"Every law that violates justice is no law at all."

"A society without justice is merely a band of criminals."

"A nation's laws should prevent injustice, not merely punish it."

"The foundations of a lasting government are laid in justice."

"A nation thrives when its laws serve the common good."

"Justice delayed is justice denied and virtue abandoned."

"Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and nations together."

"Justice is the foundation of peace."

"A woman must not accept the appointed role of her society."

"The moral status of the woman is bound up with the economic and social organization."

"Passive acceptance is not a virtue; it is complicity."

"The measure of human progress is the freedom of women."

"The struggle for justice is never finished; it is renewed in each generation."

"The work of justice is the work of each individual in each moment."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."