Quotes Blog #1: Fairness
— Aristophanes
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
— Aristotle
Fair play is a jewel.
— Sir Walter Scott
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.
— Michael Josephson
Justice is truth in action.
— Joseph Joubert
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
— Eric Hoffer
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
— Barbara Hall
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
— Domitus Ulpian
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
— Earl Warren
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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
It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
–- Oscar Aria
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of Justice.
–- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
— Francis Bacon
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
— Edmund Burke
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
— Raymond Chandler
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
— Henry Waldorf Francis
Justice delayed is justice denied.
— William Gladstone
Justice is incidental to law and order.
— J. Edgar Hoover
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
The more laws, the less justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are only two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— Edith Wharton
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr