Justice Quotes

"Silence in the face of injustice is complicity."

"Inequality is the source of all social evil."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"The general will is always right and tends invariably toward public utility."

"The purpose of law is to protect freedom, not to restrict it."

"Society exists to protect the weak from the strong."

"The pattern of history shows that justice delayed is justice denied."

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"The ideal of justice can only be approached through rebellion against injustice."

"The only valid response to an unfair world is to live fairly within it."

"Justice is the art of making the powerful feel the powerless's pain."

"Every man is guilty of all the evil he does not personally prevent."

"Silence is a form of complicity."

"The oppressed must become their own liberators."

"If I knew something useful to my nation but ruinous to mankind, I would reject it."

"Excessive severity in punishing crime is not less injurious than excessive lenity."

"Laws are the conditions under which men unite to form society."

"The inequality of private wealth is not injurious, provided that the laws are just."

"Excessive severity in punishing crime shows a weakness in the magistrate."

"The independence of judges is not a privilege for their benefit, but for the protection of the people."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"The value of a government is measured by how it treats the weakest among its citizens."

"Be just before you are generous."

"The good of all should be the law of each."

"The ethics of ambition demands we recognize the ambitions of others as equally valid."

"The oppressed must not seek acceptance from the oppressor, but liberation."

"To accept injustice is to become complicit in it."

"Oppression survives through the victim's internalization of the oppressor's view."