Quotes About Justice

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.

The righteous man does not need your sympathy, but the unrighteous; he who, by his wrong-doing, is laying up for himself long periods of suffering and woe is in need of it.

Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Not what he desires and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are handiest gratified and responded once they harmonize together with his mind and actions.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so;

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms

Los seres que no conocen este Amor se nombran como jueces y verdugos de su prójimo y olvidan que existe el Juez y Ejecutor Eterno.

We begin to be mature adults only when we cease to whine and revile and commence to search for the hidden justice which regulates our lives.

Un hombre sólo empieza a ser hombre cuando deja de lamentarse y maldecir, y comienza a buscar la justicia oculta que gobierna su vida.

and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.

The realization of divine knowledge, selfless Love, utterly destroys the spirit of condemnation, disperses all evil, and lifts the consciousness to that height of pure vision where Love, Goodness, Justice are seen to be universal, supreme, all-conquering, indestructible.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions. In

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap. You

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals. I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the niggers is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.

It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it 'ominous' when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don't we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we're going to have to defend ourselves against you?