Blaise Pascal Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

• Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Justice, Social Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

• The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Divine Justice, Spirit, Infinite

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.65, Courier Corporation

• Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

  Blaise Pascal

  Stupid, Justice, Tools

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

• Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Men, Roots

• The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Order, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Healing, Squares

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

• The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Order, Justice

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.184

• Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Justice, Examination

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

• Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Justified

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

• Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fashion, Justice, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Climate, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

• Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Blind, Resemblance

• Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Power, Men

• It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Law, People

  Blaise Pascal, Richard Henry Popkin (1989). “Pascal selections”, Macmillan Pub Co

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