Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

All men are equal before fish.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

A just society is one in which liberty for one person is constrained only by the demands created by equal liberty for another.

Equality is the chief groundwork of equity.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

…in a just society, no one can ever be reduced to poverty or forced to beg.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.