Justice Quotes by Aristotle

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

— Aristotle

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

— Aristotle

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

— Aristotle

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

— Aristotle

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

Between friends there is no need of justice.

— Aristotle

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

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Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law,…

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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than…

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Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts…

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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

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Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are…

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It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted,…

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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness…

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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the…

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There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the…

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not…

— Aristotle

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to…

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It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or…

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“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who…

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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law…

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Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right…

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When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of…

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For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;…

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it…

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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit…

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In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although…

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

— Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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

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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as…

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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

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No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of…

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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

— Aristotle