Tyler Cowen Quotes

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Justice and good will outlast passion.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

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

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness in an everlasting stream.

The headquarters of good principles.

Let this moment be the beginning of an epoch of austere morality and of immaculate justice.

Civilization depends on morality.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

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

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

How near to good is what is fair!

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

I say that justice is truth in action.