Justice and Equality

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.