Lew Wallace Quotes

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

There is no strength without justice.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Fair means alone can produce fair results.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

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

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.