Justice Quotes

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

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"Justice demands that we extend to others the same compassion we desire for ourselves."
André-Marie Ampère
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"Justice delayed is a wound that never truly heals."
André-Marie Ampère
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"Justice without compassion is cruelty; compassion without justice is weakness."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Justice delayed is justice denied; justice rushed is injustice assured."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"The beauty of science lies in its democratic nature: truth needs no privileged messenger."
Georg Ohm
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"Those who mock inquiry are the enemies of all progress, past and future."
Georg Ohm
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"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Justice without compassion is merely vengeance in a suit."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice without mercy is cruelty."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Jacques Charles
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"Justice is the conscience of civilization."
Jacques Charles
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists."
Bertrand Russell
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"The moral law is as immutable as the laws of physics."
Michael Faraday
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"The measure of a civilization is not its power, but its commitment to truth and justice."
Michael Faraday
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"Science without ethics is merely cleverness serving folly."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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"Justice, like a scientific principle, applies equally or it applies not at all."
Jacques Charles
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"Justice deferred is injustice served; act swiftly and fairly."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Justice requires both the head to think clearly and the heart to feel deeply."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"Nature's laws are democratic; they apply equally to all matter."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"In atoms distributed equally, we find nature's own statement on fairness."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"Justice must be the foundation of society."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Justice in science demands that all observations be treated with equal respect."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Justice demands that credit for discovery go to those who earned it through labor."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"Justice requires that we examine evidence with unbiased eyes."
Robert Boyle
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"Nature's laws are democratic; they apply equally to all."
Jacques Charles
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"Atoms know no prejudice; they combine according to immutable law."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The advancement of knowledge benefits all mankind, not the few."
Robert Boyle
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"The laboratory is a democracy where evidence rules and opinion must bow."
Jöns Jacob Berzelius