Character Quote by Denis Diderot

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

— William Penn

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

— Theodore Parker

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

— Epicurus

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

— Anatole France

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

— J. Edgar Hoover

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

— Mark Helprin

The first duty of society is justice.

— Alexander Hamilton

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the…

— B. W. Powe

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Thomas Aquinas

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason…

— Plato

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

— Epicurus