Justice Quotes by Plato

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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Justice means minding ones own business and not meddling with other mens concerns.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest…

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of…

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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself,…

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst…

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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And…

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“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what…

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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among…

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,…

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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice…

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Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public…

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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall…

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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any…

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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of…

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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs…

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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible,…

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“[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and…

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first…

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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the…

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“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay,…

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“They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the…

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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“I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.”

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

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