Quotes about justice
justice eating-alone bakeries
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating. Pablo Neruda
justice stronger advantage
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger. Plato
justice stronger principles
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. Plato
justice
Justice is having and doing what is one's own. Plato
justice evil injustice
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils. Plato
justice suffering customs
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. Plato
justice may hearing
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing? Plato
justice needs would-be
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. Plato
justice might might-is-right
Do not expect justice where might is right. Plato
justice crime
When there is crime in society, there is no justice. Plato
justice weakness force
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation. Paulo Freire
justice intellectual social-justice
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. Paulo Freire
justice humanity six
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Martin Seligman
justice firsts social
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. Martin Sheen
justice words-of-wisdom taxation
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes? John Stuart Mill
justice tree inward
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. John Stuart Mill
justice support feelings
I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency. John Rawls
justice tolerance theory
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. John Rawls
justice may normal
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. John Rawls
justice might half
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception. John Rawls
justice want fairness
Justice as fairness provides what we want. John Rawls
justice judging fundamentals
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. John Rawls
justice firsts virtue
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, John Rawls
justice assuming advantage
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. John Rawls
justice reform obedience
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform. John Rawls
justice philanthropy mankind
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind. John Rawls
justice stable
A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable. John Rawls
justice virtue
Justice is happiness according to virtue. John Rawls
justice community individual
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. James J. Corbett
justice lasts ends
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Martin Luther
justice only-love
there's no justice, there's only love. Marilyn French
justice
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had. Marilyn French
justice important victim
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims. Nancy Grace