Quotes About Justice

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

There is equality before God and there is equality here on earth. There is natural equality and there is the kind of equality that human society creates.

In The Prince he says that "a just war is a necessary war," thus cutting through the Gordian knot formed by endless Medieval discussions of Just War from Saint Augustine to Saint Thomas Aquinas.

By 1908, future justice Louis Brandeis was able present the United States Supreme Court, in Muller v. Oregon, with more than 100 studies on the need to protect women against overwork. The strategy worked, and state regulation of women's work was declared to be constitutional. Yet notably, just three years earlier another court had rejected similar regulation of an industry in which men bore among the heaviest burdens, namely baking.[337

In a passage that foreshadows criticisms of equality from his time to the present, he also mentions the "despotism" of the law required to enforce equality and maintain it.[37]

In the law of Moses, God forbade the judges to take a gift: "Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise and change the words of the just." (Deut. 16:19).

The evil enemy will then begin to accuse them, and bring forward everything that he can against them. But the guardian Angel will defend his client, he will produce all his good works, his penances, his virtues, and lay them in the scales of Divine justice.

God pays back debts without money.

Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41

Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, Hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, Stripe for stripe

Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty?

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

J.K. Rowling's and Terry Pratchett's. He liked to lose himself in fantasies where people always solved their problems, made sure that right was done and evil cast aside. If only life was that simple.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, 'Power In The Blood' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002

What goes around comes around. How true those words were.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.' George Santayana 1863-1952 'There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.' Isaiah 48:22

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: Judge thou my cause. Lamentations 3:59

Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember.

Everyone stared at her, sorry for her but glad it had not happened to them. There were a few murmurs of sympathy, and a few people whispering all the reasons they thought Vilsa may have deserved what had happened. It is important to make people deserve what happens to them. If bad things can happen for no apparent reason, then bad things might happen to innocent us.