justice Quotes

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of... ...

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states... ...

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is... ...

The worst unfairness is trying to make things equal when they are naturally different.

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for... ...

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.