Justice Quotes

"Justice requires understanding the perspective of the wronged."

"Justice is the expression of equality."

"Justice emerges from the rational organization of society."

"The true measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members."

"Murder and treachery cannot change the nature of the act."

"There is no greater challenge than to establish a truly just society."

"The business of education is not to make the individual an organ of the existing order, but to create one who will make the order serve human purposes."

"Society exists for the benefit of its members; not the members for the benefit of society."

"The principle of equal freedom can admit of no exceptions."

"The supreme principle of morality is the determination to act justly."

"Every penalty in its last resort must rest on the principle of retaliation."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny."

"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny."

"The tendencies of all laws have been to lessen equality."

"All laws create some mischief; the problem is whether they create more happiness than misery."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"Labor in the white skin can never be free so long as labor in the black skin is branded."

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces."

"A society that has abolished real differences will no longer need any imaginary ones."

"Private property is the theft of public goods."

"Society must stand on new foundations if the working class is to be free."

"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not members for society."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Justice requires understanding the laws of human nature and society."

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

"The criterion of a progressive society is that each individual is treated as an end in himself."

"Justice is the expression of our common good, not individual gain."

"Justice delayed is justice denied, and this is the tragedy of the unjust."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."