Top 49 Quotes About The Virtue Of Justice

#1. It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

Aristotle.

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#2. The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.

Antonin Scalia

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#3. There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors ... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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#4. There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Aristotle.

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#5. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

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#6. Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#7. Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Plato

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#8. And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Homer

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#9. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Horace Walpole

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#10. I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.

Martin Luther

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#11. 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

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#12. Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

Hermann Hesse

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#13. Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

Rohinton Mistry

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#14. Greed is the seed of corruption
as much as virtue is the seed of justice.
Wisdom is the seed of success
as much as vice is the seed of destruction.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#15. A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

Hildegard Of Bingen

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#16. The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

Confucius

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#17. If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you're constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Jordan B. Peterson

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#18. It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy ...

R.C. Sproul

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#19. Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Edmund Burke

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#20. Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

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#21. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.

George Mason

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#22. For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.

Plutarch

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#23. Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Jonathan Haidt

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#24. Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

Alan Ryan

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#25. Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Maximilien Robespierre

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#26. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

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#27. Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Aristotle.

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#28. I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

Barry M. Goldwater

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#29. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle.

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#30. Virtues, of ...
Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Benjamin Franklin

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#31. Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Benjamin Rush

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#32. The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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#33. A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Edward Gibbon

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#34. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.

Jason Evert

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#35. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#36. What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

John Marshall

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#37. Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Jose Rizal

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#38. The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

Abraham Maslow

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#39. The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Simone Weil

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#40. Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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#41. Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

Marcus Aurelius

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#42. To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.

Marcus Aurelius

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#43. Why does crime, even when as powerful as Caesar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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#44. Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

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#45. Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

Samuel Parr

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#46. There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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#47. Though justice be the solid foundation on which a society may be built, it is the transcendent virtue of mercy that lifts that society above the base stones of its foundation and makes it something great.

Rayne Hall

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#48. If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished ...

Algernon Sidney

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#49. Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Confucius

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