Plato Quotes About Justice

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  • Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

  • Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

  • ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

  • To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

  • Do not expect justice where might is right.

  • The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

    Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.906, e-artnow
  • Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

    Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.311, Xist Publishing
  • And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

    Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic
  • The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

    Plato (1959). “The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito [and] Phaedo”
  • A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

    Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.36, Hackett Publishing
  • 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.

  • Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

  • Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

    Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions
  • When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

    Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin
  • Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

  • May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

    Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

    Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
  • Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

    Plato, Benjamin Jowett (2007). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.448, Courier Corporation
  • When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

  • SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

    Plato (1892). “Republic. Timaeus. Critias”
  • By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

  • Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

  • O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

    Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.2808, e-artnow
  • ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

  • Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

    Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
  • Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

    Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.162, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  • Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

    Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.221, Xist Publishing
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Plato

  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher