--- title: "11 Principles Justice Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Principles Justice quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Principles Justice sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png" --- > [But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains-the-essential-principles-of/) [Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png) > [A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contains-a-certain-body-of-men/) [Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/charles-darwin-507_body_a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contai_1613580.jpg) > [Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-shotwell/peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the-ending-of-wars-it-is-the/) [James T. Shotwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-t-shotwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/james-t-shotwell-101628_creation_peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the_1433142.jpg) > [Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of-justice-do-not-change-with/) [D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/d-h-lawrence-426_calendars_ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of_2242802.png) > [The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-rawls/the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-behind-a-veil-of-ignorance/) [John Rawls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-rawls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/john-rawls-7786_chosen_the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-beh_2715745.jpg) > [Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-nussbaum/some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-to-public-principles-of/) [Martha Nussbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-nussbaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/martha-nussbaum-4759_anger_some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-t_2108809.jpg) > [A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act-upon-principles-of-justice/) [Roger B. Taney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-b-taney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/roger-b-taney-39278_act_a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act_1522181.jpg) > [Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain-a-just-republic-and-it-is-to/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/thomas-jefferson-43_council_perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain_3118268.jpg) > [...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of-justice-that-are-infringed/) [John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/john-stuart-mill-477_british_it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of_210580.jpg) > [First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrificed-for-the-sake-of-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/anonymous-1_consistent_first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrif_2118797.jpg) > [“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly/it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdozo-of-the-us-supreme-court/) [Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-207_first-time_it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdo_621077.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/#itemlist", "name": "Principles Justice Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Gibbon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains-the-essential-principles-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.” — Edward Gibbon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Darwin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contains-a-certain-body-of-men/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/charles-darwin-507_body_a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contai_1613580.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/charles-darwin-507_body_a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contai_1613580.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/charles-darwin-507_body_a-republic-cannot-succeed-till-it-contai_1613580.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and…” — Charles Darwin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James T. Shotwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-shotwell/peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the-ending-of-wars-it-is-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/james-t-shotwell-101628_creation_peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the_1433142.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/james-t-shotwell-101628_creation_peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the_1433142.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/james-t-shotwell-101628_creation_peace-is-not-merely-a-vacuum-left-by-the_1433142.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles…” — James T. Shotwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "D. H. Lawrence" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of-justice-do-not-change-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/d-h-lawrence-426_calendars_ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of_2242802.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/d-h-lawrence-426_calendars_ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of_2242802.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/d-h-lawrence-426_calendars_ethics-and-equity-and-the-principles-of_2242802.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” — D. H. Lawrence", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Rawls" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-rawls/the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-behind-a-veil-of-ignorance/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/john-rawls-7786_chosen_the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-beh_2715745.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/john-rawls-7786_chosen_the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-beh_2715745.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/john-rawls-7786_chosen_the-principles-of-justice-are-chosen-beh_2715745.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.” — John Rawls", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha Nussbaum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-nussbaum/some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-to-public-principles-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/martha-nussbaum-4759_anger_some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-t_2108809.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/martha-nussbaum-4759_anger_some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-t_2108809.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/martha-nussbaum-4759_anger_some-emotions-are-essential-to-law-and-t_2108809.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our…” — Martha Nussbaum", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger B. Taney" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act-upon-principles-of-justice/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/roger-b-taney-39278_act_a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act_1522181.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/roger-b-taney-39278_act_a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act_1522181.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/roger-b-taney-39278_act_a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act_1522181.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it…” — Roger B. Taney", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government at all) it must be so extensive as that local egoisms may never reach its greater part; that on every particular question, a majority may be found in its councils free from particular interests, and giving, therefore, an uniform prevalence to the principles of justice.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain-a-just-republic-and-it-is-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/thomas-jefferson-43_council_perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain_3118268.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/thomas-jefferson-43_council_perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain_3118268.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/thomas-jefferson-43_council_perhaps-it-will-be-found-that-to-obtain_3118268.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Stuart Mill" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of-justice-that-are-infringed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/john-stuart-mill-477_british_it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of_210580.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/john-stuart-mill-477_british_it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of_210580.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/john-stuart-mill-477_british_it-is-not-only-the-general-principles-of_210580.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the…” — John Stuart Mill", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrificed-for-the-sake-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/anonymous-1_consistent_first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrif_2118797.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/anonymous-1_consistent_first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrif_2118797.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/anonymous-1_consistent_first-individual-rights-cannot-be-sacrif_2118797.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental rights as a doctrine in Palko v. Connecticut and held that some rights are fundamental as they ‘represent the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty… principles of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be marked as fundamental’.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly/it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdozo-of-the-us-supreme-court/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-207_first-time_it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdo_621077.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-207_first-time_it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdo_621077.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/justice-asok-kumar-ganguly-207_first-time_it-was-not-until-1937-that-justice-curdo_621077.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept…” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/", "name": "Principles Justice Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/edward-gibbon-710_democracy_but-a-wild-democracy-too-often-disdains_2675258.png" }, "description": "Browse 11 Principles Justice quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Principles Justice sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Principles Justice Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-justice/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```