Quotes About Justice

W szale?stwach szlachetnej pasji wi?cej jest sprawiedliwo?ci i nadziei ni? w ponurych rygorach tego ?wiata.

Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived intersubjectively distinguishes itself from the arbitrary freedom of the isolated individual. No one is free until we are all free.

The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.

Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings

As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.

To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.

Justice requires acute perception of what is really due to the other person; in

the City is not a simple partnership; it is a partnership of partnerships, each of which already has a pattern of its own, a pattern that government did not give it. These partnerships best flourish in that larger partnership which is the City, and law merely assures the background conditions—the most important of which is simple justice—they need in order to do so. Thus the proper aim of the state is not to do everything itself but to support a life which was there before it.

deliberation cannot be merely an extension of sense, for we are capable of being attracted by non-sensible objects like knowledge and justice. Still

We may add that it is not an act of justice but of foolish injustice to pretend the sexes are the same. Justice is exercised in respectfully providing for the due needs of each.

Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.

it is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

New Jerusalem is found wherever human community resists the ways of empire and places God at the center of its shared life."27

Justice is incedental to law and order.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

J. Edgar Hoover

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.