Justice Quotes

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and makes it the foundation of its system."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Every man to count for one, and no one to count for more than one."

"Inequality is the source of social discord and unhappiness."

"The measure of a just society is how it treats its least fortunate members."

"Prejudice is the offspring of ignorance and the parent of injustice."

"Justice is the virtue that makes all other virtues possible."

"The best weapon against injustice is to expose it to the light of public opinion."

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

"Persons are ends in themselves and must never be treated merely as means."

"If justice perishes, human life has lost its value."

"A human being is to be treated as an end in itself, never merely as a means."

"Every rational being has dignity, not merely price."

"The first condition for the liberation of the working class is the abolition of all classes."

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

"The interest of the working class lies in the destruction of all class rule."

"The ruling class makes and enforces the laws that bind the working class."

"Every individual has the right to be recognized as a person."

"Justice is the highest virtue of the state."

"Justice requires that we consider the consequences of our thoughts and actions on others."

"The greatest good of the greatest number must be the motto of every honest statesman."

"The greatest monarch is not above the laws which govern human conduct."

"Justice, being derived from human conventions and mutual advantage, has no universal application."

"Justice is the realization of freedom in the ethical community."

"Justice requires the recognition of the rights and dignity of all."

"The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes is wrong in 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."

"The evil is not that statute law SOMETIMES fails, but that it always fails unless circumstances are in its favor."

"Willingness to submit to unjust punishment is not morally praiseworthy."

"All things considered, I think it not improbable that some future age will look back upon our present criminal procedure as we look back upon the torture of suspects."