Justice Quotes

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

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"Justice requires speaking truth even when it is uncomfortable."
Jane Goodall
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"The more we know about variation within human populations, the less support we find for biological racism."
Stephen Jay Gould
"The greatest crimes are those committed in the name of religion."
Louis Pasteur
"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."
Louis Pasteur
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"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves."
Jane Goodall
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere in our shared world."
Jane Goodall
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"Silence in the face of injustice is itself a form of injustice."
Jane Goodall
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Galileo Galilei
"Justice demands that knowledge be shared freely with all humanity."
Louis Pasteur
"All people everywhere should have free energy sources."
Nikola Tesla
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"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction in the moral world."
Isaac Newton
"The greatest good for the greatest number of beings."
Charles Darwin
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein
"The laboratory is a democracy where facts, not authority, rule."
Louis Pasteur
"Justice demands that scientific truth be available to all, not hoarded by the few."
Louis Pasteur
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"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my profound inability to do anything practical about anything at all."
Marie Curie
"Prejudice is the enemy of scientific progress and human advancement."
Louis Pasteur
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Gupta, Akhil
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."
Gupta, Akhil
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"In Poland, women were not permitted to attend the university, which was the greatest obstacle to my education."
Marie Curie
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"A woman scientist should not be ignored, no matter how great her contributions to knowledge."
Marie Curie
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"Women have contributed greatly to science, yet their achievements are often forgotten or attributed to men."
Marie Curie
"It appears to me that nothing can be more improved than the condition of the working classes."
Charles Darwin
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is injustice committed."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Justice demands not just laws, but the will to enforce them equally."
Gupta, Akhil
"Ethical rules must, however, always be the point of departure."
Nikola Tesla
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops, or ought to stop, at the threshold where force begins."
Galileo Galilei
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"I was always saddened when a distinction was made between my scientific work and my role as a woman."
Marie Curie