Aristotle Quotes about Justice - Page 2

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Law, Ideas, Justice

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.91

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Aristotle

Fall, Play, Justice

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1784, Princeton University Press

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

Aristotle

Wisdom, Philosophical, Justice

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Aristotle

Justice, Judging, Office

"Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

Aristotle

Government, Law, Justice

Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

Aristotle

Justice, Virtue, Found

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.115, Wordsworth Editions

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Aristotle

Law, Justice, Principles

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

Aristotle

Government, Tyrants, Justice

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Princeton University Press

It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.

Aristotle

Law, Justice, Judging

Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.4

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