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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 99
- Virtue
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 99
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Lion and the Mouse – The Fawn and His MotherIn context
- Power
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Account of Matilda Joslyn Gage (June 20, 1873) to Kansas Leavenworth Times (July 3, 1873)
- Laws
- Women
When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book VIII, 1155a.26
- Friendship
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.
Julian Assangeborn 1971Talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum (April 2010)
- Knowledge
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945In Quest of Democracy (1991)
- War & Peace
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Fourth BookIn context
- Thinking
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
Jeremy Bentham1748–1832An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789; 1823), Ch. 17: Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence
- Animals
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 9:6 (KJV)In context
- Life & Death
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 18:25 (KJV)In context
- God
Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Government
Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act 3, scene 1 (Peachum)
- Laws