Abstract Quote by Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind.…

— Hannah Arendt

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

— Robert M. Hutchins

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Plato summarizes his reply to equalitarianism in the formula: ‘Equal treatment of unequals must beget inequity’20; and this was developed by Aristotle into the…

— Karl R. Popper

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

— Charles James Fox

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of…

— Victor Cousin

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

— Mikhail Bakunin

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

— Epicurus