Body Quote by Charles Darwin

Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government…

— Thomas Jefferson

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

— John Rawls

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

— Edward Gibbon

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

— D. H. Lawrence

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot…

— Anonymous

Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of…

— Martha Nussbaum

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or…

— Roger B. Taney

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

— James T. Shotwell

“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental rights as…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as…

— John Stuart Mill

“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as it becomes,…

— Charles Darwin

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

— Charles Darwin