Quotes About Justice

I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly just because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you're a vegetarian

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.

Don't punish the one in front of you, for the mistakes made by the one behind you.

When you hurt someone unjustly, ask them for forgiveness and your conscience will be freed.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

The offender never pardons

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.

There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty is carried out. What I've learned from meeting with these people is that you don't feel better in revenge. You feel better in forgiveness.

I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'You have to ask for it.' I gave him absolution and said, 'Now go to the court and tell them everything that you've told me.' And that is exactly what he did. He made a public declaration of everything he said to me,

Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences,

There is no forgiveness in nature.

It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,

Naught is said to you but what was said indeed to the apostles before you; surely your Lord is the Lord of forgiveness and the Lord of painful retribution.

So when he saw his shirt rent from behind, he said: Surely it is a guile of you women; surely your guile is great: O Yusuf! turn aside from this; and (O my wife)! ask forgiveness for your fault, surely you are one of the wrong-doers.

Behold! you are they who (may) plead for them in this world's life, but who will plead for them with Allah on the resurrection day, or who shall be their protector? And whoever does evil or acts unjustly to his soul, then asks forgiveness of Allah, he shall find Allah Forgiving, Merciful.

And We did not send any apostle but that he should be obeyed by Allah's permission; and had they, when they were unjust to themselves, come to you and asked forgiveness of Allah and the Apostle had (also) asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah Oft-returning (to mercy), Merciful.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.