Justice Quotes

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature."

"Power cannot be arbitrary in a commonwealth built upon the foundations of justice."

"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice."

"Where there is property, there may be injustice; where there is law, there may be order."

"Forgiveness is not the eradication of justice, but its highest form."

"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."

"A good deed is never wasted."

"The law exists to perfect society and lead humanity toward virtue."

"To act justly and to love mercy are the highest human pursuits."

"To judge another without full knowledge is to commit an injustice."

"The measure of a society is how it treats those who cannot defend themselves."

"Justice consists in preventing injury to others."

"Justice delayed is justice denied to all."

"The greatest severity of judgment is exercised towards others in the very same case in which we ourselves would be punished for a much smaller fault."

"All moral distinctions arise from human sentiment."

"What is the foundation of morality? It must be derived from human sentiment."

"Vengeance is a kind of wild justice."

"The path of a just man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men."

"The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"The remedy of disorder is not to destroy order, but to restore it."

"The taking away of undone injustice is an act of justice."

"Act with justice even if it harms your own interests."

"Justice delayed is not justice; it is injustice prolonged."

"Justice delayed teaches us to question systems that delay it."

"Justice requires understanding, not merely judgment."

"The measure of a society is how it treats those who cannot defend themselves."

"The pursuit of justice requires that we look beyond our own interests."

"The world is sustained by three things: truth, peace, and justice."