Accounting Quote by Bell Hooks

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring…

— Michael Sandel

Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention…

— David Hume

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

— Justinian I

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

— Thomas Aquinas

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that…

— Horace Walpole

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that…

— Plutarch

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

— Theodore Parker

Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that…

— John Galt

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

— George Eliot