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

Epicurus
10

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Epicurus
10

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Mahatma Gandhi
9

The existence of the ‘Self’ is the true miracle within you. If you do not realize your ‘Self’, then you do not do yourself justice.

Swami Satyananda Giri
9

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Epicurus
9

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past, by building a future based on equality & social justice.

Nelson Mandela
8

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Thales
8

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

Maimonides
8

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Epicurus
7

Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.

Maimonides
7

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Pope John Paul II
6

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

Francis of Assisi
6

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

Pope John Paul II
5

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornament of equity and justice.

Bahá'u'lláh
5

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato
5

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Meister Eckhart
5

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

Epicurus
5

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

Epicurus
5

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

Muhammad
4

If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world – especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.

Alan Watts
4

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.

Socrates
3

If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!

Mother Teresa
3