Aeschylus Quotes

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

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.

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

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Justice is the truth in action.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

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.

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

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

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

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.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

That which is not just is not law.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.