Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

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

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

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

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

It is not honorable to take a mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice

Civilization depends on morality.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

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

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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