Quotes About Justice

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

The famous law of punishment, "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Exodus 21:24), embodies the same principle in a specific juridical context. It was never intended as an excuse for personal vengeance but as a directive to judges making decisions regarding penalties in cases of injury (Exodus 21:22-25).

the elimination of restitution and retribution converts the offender into an object to be manipulated rather than a person responsible for wrongdoing.

God's justice, not the human sense of justice, is our ultimate standard.

An appeal to a general human sense of justice easily gets corrupted into an idea of justice apart from God and His word. It tempts people back into love of self, lust for autonomy, and lust for defining justice to suit themselves and their narrow interests instead of God.

Many of us reject theonomy because we think that the Mosaic law is harsh. But the real problem is with us, not with the law (cf. Romans 7:12, 14). We have swallowed so much of the modern humanistic thinking that our own judgments and emotional reactions are corrupted. We confuse mercy with vague good will, justice with tolerance, love with sentimentality.

When two people have a clear understanding of power and betrayal, then betrayal itself becomes almost impossible. There is only the ordered flow of events, bringing good to those who deserve to rule.

It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. -Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

Y es que Don Juan no sólo seduce, goza y desdeña en serie, con una prisa humillante, a sus elegidas; lo hace convencido de la justicia sensual de tale hazañas, que dará a muchas mujeres la posibilidad de satisfacer un placer deseado en lo más hondo. Para él, únicamente la pasión es hermosa y estimulante; la tranquilidad del amor, por el contrario, atonta.

Unfortunately, by then, he had already seen the last of his beloved elephant Bandoola. The great tusker had been killed before war's end, in circumstances that would haunt Williams for the rest of his life. It was, he would always maintain, nothing short of murder

You've come to the wrong shop for mercy.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

But darling Sasha, why resort to terrorism, murder? How awful.' He replied, 'What can one do, Mother, when there are no other means available?

In the conflicts between capital and labour, the army has often intervened against labour - never against capital. In court the defense of the poor is nothing short of impossible, because of the cost of any judicial action; in effect, a worker can neither bring a case nor defend one. The overwhelming majority of crimes are directly caused by poverty and come into the category of attacks on property. The overwhelming majority of prison inmates are from the poor.

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

Once a policeman, always a policeman; and what does a policeman do but present evidence dramatically and wait for reactions from interviewees?

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?