FastSaying

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men


Epicurus

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.
CLARENCE DARROW There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
CLARENCE DARROW There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
CLARENCE DARROW There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
CLARENCE DARROW There is no such thing as justice, only good and bad lawyers.
WILLIAM J DAGER There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
AYN RAND There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families
MARGARET THATCHER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. B...
CORNEL WEST There is no such thing as normal. There is no such thing as prefection.They are just unrealistic dre...
MOE FARRINGTON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible fo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no justice among men.
NICHOLAS II There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
THOMAS SZASZ There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called mat...
MARK TWAIN There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamo...
STACEY D'ERASMO There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body,
TOM CRUISE There is no such thing as no chance.
HENRY FORD There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always d...
TERRY GOODKIND There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merci...
PAUL DAVID WASHER If there is one thing our committee agreed upon, it is that there is no such thing as a free gift.
DAVID ROTHMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
CESAR CHAVEZ There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
MITCH ALBOM There is no such thing as a free lunch.
BARRY COMMONER there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.
KELVIN THROOP III There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS There is no such thing as a good tax.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
PLATO There is no such thing as a draft exception.
JOE LARSEN There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
DOUGLAS WILSON There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing
ROBERT BURNS There is no such thing as a successful defence.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON There is no such thing as a good tax.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as a female punster
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
GEORGE MICHAEL There is no such thing as a fair fight.
BOHDI SANDERS Between friends there is no need of justice.
ARISTOTLE There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as truth.
ADOLPH HITLER There is no such thing as sportsmanship.
TERRELL DAVIS There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Na...
H. RIDER HAGGARD There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no s...
SAM HARRIS There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
PLATO There is no such thing as a continuously carnal Christian.
PAUL WASHER There is no such thing as a humane meat eater.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.
LEO BURNETT There is no such thing as a good comb-over
CHARLES LOW There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.
CORY GARDNER There is no such thing as weak competition; it grows all the time.
NABIL N. JAMAL There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
MARAT SAFIN There is no such thing as a limitation, when it comes to thinking capabilities.
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
OSCAR WILDE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
UNKNOWN There is no such thing as part freedom
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylu...
CARL JUNG There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylu...
C.G. JUNG There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'....
CESAR MILLAN There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.
DEBORAH TANNEN There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM There is no such thing as loving a child too much.
AARON LAURITSEN There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
TOM PETERS There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so...
WOODROW WILSON There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
MOHNISH PABRAI Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but onl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but on...
THOMAS CARLYLE There is no such thing as being too independent.
VICTORIA BILLINGS There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
DAN BARBER There is no such thing as coincidence, only hitsuzen.
CLAMP There is no such thing as expecting too much.
SUSAN CHEEVER There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy
FRENCH PROVERB There is no such thing as an unusual item,
M. HARDMAN There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that i...
REBECCA WEST The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It...
BRUNO DUMONT There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD M. NIXON Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
BILLY CONNELLY There is no such thing as “Bad Luck”; it’s just a ghost in your mind.
MEHUL DESAI There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
ANTHONY ROBBINS There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
GERMAINE GREER There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
TONY ROBBINS There is no such thing as modern art. There is art,and there is advertising.
ALBERT STERNER There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

More Epicurus

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he m...
EPICURUS Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown o...
EPICURUS The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUS Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is ...
EPICURUS It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live...
EPICURUS All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
EPICURUS I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far re...
EPICURUS If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing...
EPICURUS Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was on...
EPICURUS I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approv...
EPICURUS The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUS The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUS Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by rea...
EPICURUS It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
EPICURUS Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
EPICURUS Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUS Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old
EPICURUS The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation fro...
EPICURUS You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving...
EPICURUS Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there
EPICURUS The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully
EPICURUS Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
EPICURUS Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
EPICURUS Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
EPICURUS Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUS Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once a...
EPICURUS A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mob...
EPICURUS It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich ...
EPICURUS Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
EPICURUS It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUS It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is imposs...
EPICURUS Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not ...
EPICURUS We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have e...
EPICURUS Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUS The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
EPICURUS Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation f...
EPICURUS A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the though...
EPICURUS He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which h...
EPICURUS It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
EPICURUS A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mob...
EPICURUS Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession...
EPICURUS We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
EPICURUS Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possessi...
EPICURUS We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for ...
EPICURUS If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever pra...
EPICURUS Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not w...
EPICURUS Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl...
EPICURUS Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired ...
EPICURUS The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from...
EPICURUS Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
EPICURUS The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
EPICURUS Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?T...
EPICURUS The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good...
EPICURUS Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing ...
EPICURUS The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or...
EPICURUS Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no...
EPICURUS So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not wit...
EPICURUS It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich t...
EPICURUS Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS Only the just man enjoys peace of mind
EPICURUS There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil ca...
EPICURUS Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
EPICURUS Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the posses...
EPICURUS It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the grea...
EPICURUS We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously
EPICURUS If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly...
EPICURUS Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency
EPICURUS Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
EPICURUS Don't fear the gods,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What i...
EPICURUS He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
EPICURUS Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUS When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates a...
EPICURUS It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
EPICURUS If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUS Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EPICURUS The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.
EPICURUS