Justice Quotes

"The interests of the majority must always prevail over those of the minority."

"Punishment should be proportional to the offense and no more."

"The measure of right and wrong is the production of happiness and the prevention of misery."

"The penalty for breaking the law should be proportional to the harm caused."

"A judge who decides cases based on tradition rather than reason is an enemy of justice."

"Justice is nothing but the calculation of human happiness and suffering."

"The only true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"The reform of legal institutions is the only cure for social injustice."

"The principle of utility demands that we sacrifice individual desire for the public good."

"Every law that does not serve the greatest happiness of the greatest number is unjust."

"The foundation of all rights is the capacity to suffer."

"A society is only as just as its treatment of criminals and the imprisoned."

"The greatest impediment to justice is the resistance of those who profit from injustice."

"The pain of punishment should never exceed the pain of the crime committed."

"You must make the contradiction between life and labour so patent to all, that all the blind will see it."

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

"No society can long endure when built on systematic exploitation."

"Immorality is not properly subject to criminal punishment."

"A human being should never be treated as a mere means."

"A person is not a thing; he is a person, an end in himself."

"Justice is the highest virtue of the state."

"A just society is built on the rule of law."

"Justice is the realization of the universal will."

"Punishment is the restoration of right after wrong."

"Crime negates right and thus negates itself."

"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."

"In the face of injustice, neutrality is impossible and silence is complicity."

"The pursuit of justice requires both passion and patience in equal measure."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

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