George Chapman Quotes

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

If they are just, they are better than clever.

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

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The just man walks in his integrity

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

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

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I am a just man.

Righteousness is on our side.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

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.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.