Quotes About Justice

the tears of the innocent are heavier than the guilty, but in the end they are still just tears

The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

My shorter definition of SF (is) Hubris clobbered by nemesis.

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Scripture tells us to submit to governing authorities. That's a valid command—most of the time. However, when we fear God, there comes a time when we must resist human government and yield to a higher authority. Government is given to protect the good and to punish the bad (see Romans 13:3). When government protects the bad and punishes the good, then our submission to legal authority may have to end. This becomes the source of persecution for righteousness' sake.

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

This is not about you. Nobody gives a shit whether you like pot or hate it. This is a race issue. It's a civil rights issue. It's about millions of people losing their liberty and their lives because of ridiculous drug laws that do not work. There are generations of black men in prison because they were caught with a substance that's less harmful than alcohol. You're a white guy, so you don't have to worry about it. Others do.

The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever—even after paying for his own sins—unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.)

Be brave, be orderly, and if any man or woman stand in your way, blow them to hell with a chunk of cold lead." The sheriff then led the posse into town and the fun began.

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

The central principle in Coherence Therapy is that far more symptoms are produced by emotional learnings than is generally recognized, and learning-driven symptoms exist entirely because they are adaptively and compelling necessary to have, according to at least one of a person's emotional implicit learnings for how to avoid suffering and have safety, well being or justice.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Love is mathematically just. — Love, and you shall be loved — all love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Abraham Lincoln thus displayed little interest in fundamentally changing the pattern of land ownership in the rebellious slave states. But he remained committed to uprooting slavery, and before long he would further broaden and deepen that commitment.

Robert E. Lee was simply echoing conventional wisdom when he wrote that "the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and enlightened public sentiment, is the best that can exist between the white and black races.