Justice Quotes

"The subjection of women is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."

"In whatever way we may define or explain the notion of justice, we find that the idea itself is not primitive, but is one of the elements into which a more complex sentiment is capable of being resolved."

"The moral progress of society depends upon the diversity and independence of individual judgment."

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection as wrong."

"In any civilized society, the subordination of one half of humanity to the other is one of the chief sources of vice and misery."

"If justice perishes, human life no longer has any value whatsoever."

"Justice requires that we treat all people according to rational principle."

"A man may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them."

"Do not go in to evil to avoid evil."

"Only he who can forgive has the right to condemn."

"The function of criticism is not to correct but to clarify."

"Justice is the virtue that makes all others possible."

"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all human endeavors."

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."

"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."

"The world was built upon the principle of good measure."

"Nothing is so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people."

"From whence then comes the right of punishing? From a right the injured has to preserve things noxious to him and so to restrain offensive creatures."

"Justice is the charity of the wise."

"Justice demands equality and fairness."

"Law, like custom, is the guardian of social order."

"Justice is the preservation of the social order."

"A just ruler is more valuable than gold."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Justice is the soul of civilization."

"The ordinary course of justice is not always just."

"What is the cause of iniquity? Not the mind of man, but the absence of virtue."

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite in the moral world."

"There is something which is called the dignity of mankind."

"There is a sort of justice in the universe, even if we cannot always see it."