5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
346 | One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation [Socrates] |
119 | A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment [Plato] |
129 | Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure? [Plato] |
266 | Injustice is the mastery of the soul by bad feelings, even if they do not lead to harm [Plato] |
2092 | Simonides said morality is helping one's friends and harming one's enemies [Plato] |
23562 | If the parts of our soul do their correct work, we will be just people, and will act justly [Plato] |
5151 | Justice concerns our behaviour in dealing with other people [Aristotle] |
4389 | What emotion is displayed in justice, and what are its deficiency and excess? [Urmson on Aristotle] |
5240 | The word 'unjust' describes law-breaking and exploitation [Aristotle] |
5242 | Justice is whatever creates or preserves social happiness [Aristotle] |
23556 | Particular justice concerns specific temptations, but universal justice concerns the whole character [Aristotle] |
5261 | Between friends there is no need for justice [Aristotle] |
22553 | Justice is a virtue of communities [Aristotle] |
14513 | Justice is a pledge of mutual protection [Epicurus] |
500 | The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the person wronged [Democritus (attr)] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
6288 | Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus] |
6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
23177 | Justice directs our relations with others, because it denotes a kind of equality [Aquinas] |
2376 | Injustice is the failure to keep a contract, and justice is the constant will to give what is owed [Hobbes] |
23560 | If we all naturally had everything we could ever desire, the virtue of justice would be irrelevant [Hume] |
3922 | Justice only exists to support society [Hume] |
14816 | Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show) [Nietzsche] |
4559 | When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice') [Nietzsche] |
22472 | The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality [Foot] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
4286 | Only just people will drop their own self-interests when faced with an impartial verdict [Scruton] |