Quotes About Justice

Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

No matter our personal dedication to goodness and justice, we are all, in greater or lesser measure, complicit in the injustices of the society which we tolerate. Even if we tolerate it for the best of reasons, it is a constant struggle not to be consumed by the self-contempt that such accommodation threatens to breed in any person of conscience.

And given how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world can be traced to money, can you imagine what the world will be like when money has been transformed?

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.

You should forgive too. There is no telling what God wants to do through you or through the person who hurt you. The one thing you do know is that as long as you harbor unforgiveness, you're not going to be free. So don't be afraid to let God handle the situation. His plan of justice for your offender may surprise you.

It doesn't take much legal sleight of hand to transform an act into an omission and vice versa. If I starve a child to death by refusing to feed it, I should expect a frosty reception to my submission at my murder trial that I was only omitting to do something. And there are various thought experiments devised by philosophers that seek to indicate that there is no distinction of substance between acts and omissions.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

A martyr to the cause of man, His blood is freedom's eucharist, And in the world's great hero list His name shall lead the van.

Charles G. West

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

Gentlemen, bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

There are actions which the whole world considers fine... They will say the same of great moral maxims; of that of Zoroaster: "If in doubt that an action be just, desist;" of that of Confucius: "Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses."

While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

But the truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert upon events in the political field. But however that may be, and whatever fate may have in store for us, yet we may rest assured that without the tireless efforts of those who are concerned with the welfare of humanity as a whole, the lot of mankind would be still worse than in fact it even now is.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.