Civil society Quote by Yuval Levin

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of…

— Edmund Burke

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it…

— James Madison

“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which…

— Yuval Levin

“Justice knows no bias. It wears the blindfold of equality, serving the rich and the poor with unwavering impartiality. The rule of law stands…

— DON SANTO

“The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.”

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

— Angela Davis

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

— Amiri Baraka

“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 cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts on the other.”

— Cathy O'Neil

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or…

— Epicurus

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all…

— Voltaire

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

— Margaret Hoover