Justice Quotes

"Justice as such is experienced in the moment of undecidability."

"Justice exceeds both law and ethics; it is incalculable."

"The law is just only insofar as it respects what exceeds it."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

"The essence of morality is the recognition of others' freedom."

"Every human act is a statement about values."

"A freedom that denies others' freedom is not freedom."

"Justice is a cardinal virtue that requires understanding the common good."

"The good of the whole community cannot be reduced to the sum of individual goods."

"Justice requires giving each person what they are due according to their contribution to the common good."

"Justice as fairness cannot replace justice understood as giving each their due."

"To define is to limit; every definition is a form of violence."

"To be ethical is to be responsible for what one cannot fully know."

"Justice requires listening to what dominant discourse excludes."

"Minorities are not quantitative but qualitative; they are lines of flight."

"We must learn to see the world through the eyes of the excluded."

"Justice is impossible, yet we must still pursue it."

"Ethics begins where knowledge fails us."

"The law must suspend itself to be just."

"Justice demands we think beyond calculation and economy."

"The law both enables and restricts what can be thought."

"Justice requires us to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves."

"Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights."

"Distributive justice cannot simply be imposed by the state; people's holdings depend on how they came about."

"Patterned theories of justice are incompatible with liberty."

"The entitled conception of justice asks: how did holdings arise?"

"Rights are constraints on action that cannot be violated for aggregate good."

"Redistribution without consent is a form of coercion."

"Rights should constrain what anyone can do, not just what the state can do."

"A theory of justice must explain how holdings are acquired justly."