3,189 Quotes About Justice

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My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

Wherefore also Cleanthes, in the second book, On Pleasure, says that Socrates everywhere teaches that the just man and the happy are one and the same, and execrated the first man who separated the just from the useful, as having done an impious thing. For those are in truth impious who separate the useful from that which is right' according to the law.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

It was funny how little justice seemed to come in the wake of justice being done. It was funny how often the word “funny” described horrors that couldn’t be screamed away.

What's fair ain't necessarily right.

Right person suffers a lot than wrong person in that place where injustice is called justice.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.