Justice Quotes by Sophocles

If they are just, they are better than clever.

— Sophocles

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

— Sophocles

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

— Sophocles

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

— Sophocles

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

— Sophocles

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

— Sophocles

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

— Sophocles

It is not righteousness to outrage

— Sophocles

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

— Sophocles

“It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.”

— Sophocles

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

— Sophocles

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

— Sophocles

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

— Sophocles

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

— Sophocles

“Once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.”

— Sophocles

“CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I…

— Sophocles

“Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not…

— Sophocles