Quotes About Justice

It's not right to profit from another person's suffering.

We can try to balance sympathy and skepticism. And then we can learn to hold our conclusions lightly, lightly enough so that we can let them go if justice demands that we do.

in real life, monsters weren't always vanquished, and heroes didn't always win.

Work was the antidote—to faithless friends, determined killers, and a society more bent upon revenge than justice. It was something that could be done, whereas all one could do with life's slings and arrows was to bear them, bravely or not.

Was sind das für Konstellationen in der Gegenwart, in denen zufällige oder angeborene Unterschiede ausgesucht werden, um daran soziale Anerkennung oder gar Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zu koppeln?

Everything is evened up in the world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter.

I bet he got picked on but what they don't tell you about bullying is that sometimes, the kid deserves it.

Deuteronomy, 'I command you [to protect the refugee] lest innocent blood be shed.

The wrong which we seek to condemn and punish,' said Taylor, 'have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilisation cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive it being repeated.' (Moorehead, 2011, 299)

God calls women to run—to trust him and invest ourselves in the race he has marked out—to participate, contribute and fight for what is right.

God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.

The God of justice, goodness, righteousness, and beauty created a world that is perfectly designed to reflect who he is.

The widow becomes God's Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.

Jesus firmly and consistently reinforced human equality by spending a lot of time in the margins of society, most notably in relationships with women. He didn't simply bring relief and comfort to the down and out. He engaged, recruited, and mobilized for his kingdom people who didn't count for anything in the eyes of society or of religious leaders. His interactions with women violated patriarchal propriety and repeatedly shocked his disciples.

Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

I'm not saying you didn't deserve it, O." Dakota laughed. "But I'm restocking the karma bank and you're at the top of my list.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; / Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

When a just cause reaches its flood tide… whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

All right. I'll bite. Here's what I think, with the caveat that I may be wrong. I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good -- we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing to much damage.

Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.