When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.Plato
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.Plato
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.Plato
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.Gustavo Gutiérrez
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.Mairead Corrigan
If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.Nouman Ali Khan
We should care as much about well-doing as well-being. I want to live in a world that values purpose as much as pleasure, contribution as much as contentment, honesty as much as excitement, and justice as much as joy.Adam Grant
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.William Faulkner
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .Nelson Mandela
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.Charles Kingsley
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.Tupac Shakur
What is the price of justice? What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they're a danger or a flight risk - only because they are poor. They don't have money to get out of jail and they certainly don't have money to flee anywhere.Loretta Lynch
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.Andrew Weil
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.Michael J. Knowles
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.Jerry Garcia
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.Cesar Chavez
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.Helen Keller
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.Samuel Johnson
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.Samuel Adams
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwater
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
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.Jose Rizal
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.Aristotle