Quotes About Justice

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

Whoever it was that first realized that a woman wronged is a dangerous animal, and I suspect he was a Neolithic half-ape, was immeasurably correct.

When you spread forth your hands, I hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I no longer listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Is that too little?

Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.

In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.

Martin Edwards

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

This book, by contrast, proceeds from an ancient Christian view that the foundation of every land is silence (Ws 18:14), where God simply and perpetually gives Himself, This Self-gift is manifested in the creation, in the people of God and their inspired (if stumbling) pursuit of a just society, and most fully, in the Christian view of things, in Jesus Christ.

It was his wont to warn them continually that the privilege of living with him in his community brought with it a grave responsibility, for God was Just and would judge them more severely than those who lived in worse ages when it was more difficult to resist evil. He said: "Verily ye are in an age when whoso omitteth one tenth of the law shall be doomed. But there will come an age when whoso fulfilleth one tenth of the law shall be saved.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

I would rather be ruled by a just Turk than by an unjust Christian.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

But the truth will win out.