Justice Philosophy Quotes

#1. All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Epicurus

#2. It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Patrick Leahy

#4. For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Narendra Modi

#5. All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

Charles Murray

#6. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#7. There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Michael Walzer

#9. Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#10. Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

Tom Stoppard

#11. Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

Martin Cohen

#13. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Socrates

#14. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely

Christopher J. Nolan

#15. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#16. I suppose if there is to be some judgement after death, a god will be the one to judge me, but it doesn't frighten me in the least. I did nothing wrong. I reserve the right to declare the justice of my case in anyone's presence.

Haruki Murakami

#17. A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

Michael J. Sandel

#18. Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Augustine Of Hippo

#19. Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.

Charlie Huston

#20. It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Aristotle.

#21. Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

John Rawls

#22. There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot

#23. When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#24. We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

Plato

#25. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

Alain De Botton

#26. A man's thoughts can change his entire life;Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.

Justice Clement

#27. No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Marty Rubin

#28. In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

Mario Bunge

#29. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls

#30. If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

Immanuel Kant

#31. It's Unfair to be fair,
For Life is unfair

Farley Maglaya

#32. A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

Joseph Addison

#33. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

Simon Critchley

#34. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.

Charleston Parker

#35. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.

John Dunn

#36. I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.

Ann Coulter

#38. Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#39. We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

Rivera Sun

#40. The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Addams

#41. For justice is a blunt knife, both as a philosophy and as a judge.

Jo Nesbo

#42. An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#43. Do not be a product of your environment; instead be the creator of the product in your environment

Justice Clement

#44. Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Charles S. Weinblatt

#45. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Clarence Darrow

#46. Its an arrogant conceit of humans to think that they can "give" justice in whatever capacity. Karma would boomerang sooner or later and you are not required to meddle with it. Laws don't ensure justice but ensures fear of punishment in men much like religion instills fear of God.

Nikhil Sharda

#47. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

John Rawls

#48. Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Iain Pears

#49. We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away through strife.

Heraclitus

#50. Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

Herb Kohl

#51. There are times when relationships need to be prioritised over what is right. And there are times when the right needs to be prioritised over relationships.

Amit Ahlawat

#52. You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

Percy Foreman

#53. Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant.

Suzy Kassem

#54. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

Ayn Rand

#55. Kindness is the best form of justice.

Debasish Mridha

#56. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

#57. You should not measure your worth by how much money you have in your bank account

Justice Clement

#58. If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

Peter Singer

#59. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

Thomas Bartholin

#60. The champion of justice [ ... ] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

Plato