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Quotes About Just

The world is, she would say. It just is, boy.
~ Richard Flanagan
Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.
~ Karl Marx
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
~ John Milton
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
~ Victor Hugo
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We love justice greatly, and just men but little.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
~ Horace
For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.
~ John Milton
It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."
~ Neil Oliver
Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.
~ Facundo Cabral
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
~ Charlotte Mason
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
~ Van Morrison
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
~ Steve Nash
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
~ Aristotle
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
~ Thomas Aquinas
... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.
~ Hillary Clinton
Though all I whisper in your ear is true, truth's not always evident or just; sometime's it's brutal as a fist. You scratch your head. You wonder what to do. You have no choice. You must persist.
~ David Elliott
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
~ David Hume
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
~ Marquis de Sade
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
~ Mary Douglas
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
~ Francis Chan