justice Quotes

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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 law is reason, free from passion.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.