Character Quote by Mark Helprin

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective,…

— Bell Hooks

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

— David Hume

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

— Aristotle

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

— Justinian I

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 the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

— Denis Diderot

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

“Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term…

— Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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