Maimonides Quotes on Justice
Moses ben Maimon, known to the Latin West as Maimonides and to Jewish tradition by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher, physician, and Torah scholar of the 12th century. This page collects quotes attributed to Maimonides on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Maimonides:
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.”
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Attributed to Maimonides:
“It is incumbent on every man to consider himself and the entire world as if they were balanced on a scale.”
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Attributed to Maimonides:
“The general object of the Law is twofold: the well-being of the soul, and the well-being of the body.”
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“Sefer Hamitzvot [ Book of the Commandments ], commentary on Negative Commandment 290, as translated by Charles B. Chavel (1967); also in Defending the Human Spirit : Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society (2006) by Warren Goldstein, p. 269”
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.