Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"The universe is our shared heritage and our shared responsibility."
François Englert
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"Scientific integrity is the foundation of progress."
John Gurdon
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"Great science serves the greater good of human understanding."
John Gurdon
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"We are only as advanced as our ethical framework allows us to be."
Ian Wilmut
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"We must remember that with great scientific power comes great responsibility to humanity."
Ian Wilmut
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"We are the first generation with the power to fundamentally alter life itself—we must choose wisely."
Ian Wilmut
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"We have the opportunity to reshape medicine; we must have the wisdom to do it justly."
Ian Wilmut
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"We must ensure that scientific advances benefit all people."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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"Justice demands that scientific benefits be shared across all of humanity."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Justice in science means fair evaluation of ideas regardless of their source."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Justice requires understanding the systemic nature of inequality."
Stanley Cohen
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but hasty judgment is equally destructive."
Stanley Cohen
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"Justice demands we hear all voices, even uncomfortable ones."
Stanley Cohen
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"We must bring diverse voices into conversations about the ethics of new technologies."
Jennifer Doudna
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"We have a duty to ensure that scientific advances benefit all of humanity."
Jennifer Doudna
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"We must ensure that the benefits of genetic medicine reach everyone, not just the wealthy."
Jennifer Doudna
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"We must think globally about how genetic editing tools are developed and deployed."
Jennifer Doudna
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"Every tool we create must be judged by its potential to help or harm."
Jennifer Doudna
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"We must ensure that genetic medicine doesn't become a privilege of the rich."
Jennifer Doudna
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"The laboratory mirrors the moral questions we face in society."
Ian Wilmut
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"We have a responsibility to use our knowledge not just for ourselves, but for all humanity."
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of mankind."
Herbert Boyer
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"Justice is the insurance we have on our liberties."
Herbert Boyer
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Kary Mullis
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"I believe that medical breakthroughs should be accessible to all humanity."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"We must understand crime in its social context, not merely as individual pathology."
Stanley Cohen
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"We create the very problems we claim to solve through criminalization."
Stanley Cohen
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"The apparatus of social control is justified by the very problems it creates."
Stanley Cohen
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"Marginalization creates the conditions for exactly the behaviors we then criminalize."
Stanley Cohen
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"The criminalization of poverty is a choice, not an inevitable response to social problems."
Stanley Cohen