Quotes about Justice

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

Again he urged that that is most choiceworthy which we choose, not by reason of, or with a view to, anything further; and that Pleasure is confessedly of this kind because no one ever goes on to ask to what purpose he is pleased, feeling that Pleasure is in itself choiceworthy. Again, that when added to any other good it makes it more choiceworthy; as, for instance, to actions of justice, or perfected self-mastery; and good can only be increased by itself.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.