Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Plato
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"The highest of all justice is a justice that upholds eternal truth."
Plato
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"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are."
Plato
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
Plato
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"Justice consists in doing one's own business and not being a busybody."
Plato
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"I belong here just like everyone else."
Timmy
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"My voice deserves to be heard."
Timmy
"Justice is not a cosmic principle, but an agreement among people to refrain from harming one another."
Epicurus
"To live justly is to live without debt to conscience."
Epicurus
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"It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it."
Socrates
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"He who understands justice will pursue it; he who understands evil will flee from it."
Socrates
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"Justice delayed is often justice denied to those who suffer most."
Elrond
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"Every person has value, no matter how different they seem."
Timmy
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"Justice means giving everyone a fair chance."
Timmy
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"The law is reason free from passion."
Aristotle
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle
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"The law is a form of order."
Aristotle
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"A political community can only be constituted by citizens sharing a concept of justice."
Aristotle
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"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Plato
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
Plato
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"That which is unjust can never be entirely stable."
Plato
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato
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"Justice requires us to see each other as fully human."
Tiffany
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"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life."
Elrond
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"To protect the innocent is the duty of the strong."
Elrond
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"The powerful are bound by duty to the weak."
Elrond
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"The Council of Elrond judges with fairness and mercy."
Elrond
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"Never underestimate someone because they're different."
Timmy
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"I believe that everyone deserves a chance to be heard."
Timmy
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"No one errs willingly; all wrongdoing is involuntary."
Socrates