William Hazlitt Quotes about Justice

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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

William Hazlitt

Justice, Done, World

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

William Hazlitt

Mean, Thinking, Justice

William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.351

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

William Hazlitt

Sports, Strong, Justice

William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

William Hazlitt

Justice, Judging, Prejudice

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

William Hazlitt

Thinking, Justice, Prejudice

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

Envy, Justice, Mind

William Hazlitt (1823). “Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims”, p.4

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

William Hazlitt

Love, Envy, Justice

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

William Hazlitt

Pain, Men, Justice

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

William Hazlitt

Pride, Justice, Community

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics