Can not Quote by Henry David Thoreau

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect…

— Aristotle

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

— Blaise Pascal

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to…

— George Bernard Shaw

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A government of laws, and not of men.

— John Adams

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of…

— Lysander Spooner

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the…

— Aristotle

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

— Epicurus