Quotes About Justice

To my mind, the chief conclusion to be drawn from Derrida's analysis is that the human-animal distinction is, strictly speaking, nonsensical. How could a simple (or even a highly refined) binary distinction approach doing justice to the complex ethical and ontological matters at stake here?

An avid reader, he found himself agreeing with the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli political figure Natan Sharansky, whose The Case for Democracy (2004) distinguished between "free societies," where dissent flourished, and "fear societies," where unpopular opinions risked imprisonment and death.

Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.

In response the Sun asserted that Bennett's "only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope.")

When men drive God's word from them he justly permits their delusions, and answers them according to the multitude of their idols.

One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;

We must first see the righteousness of God condemning, and then the righteousness of God justifying will appear worthy of all acceptation.

when God pleads his people's cause he can deal with giants as with grasshoppers. No

is no breach of the law of meekness to show our displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked.

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

mic.6.7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?† mic.6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?†

Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

Clear heads and stout hearts make good judges.

God will own his own people, though ever so poor and despicable, and will find a time to plead their cause.

2.) A severe penalty: The Lord will not hold him guiltless; magistrates, who punish other offences, may not think themselves concerned to take notice of this, because it does not immediately offer injury either to private property or the public peace; but God, who is jealous for his honour, will not thus connive at it.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

Guilt and corruption are our two great discouragements when we stand before God. By the guilt of the sins committed by us we have become obnoxious to the justice of God; by the power of the sin that dwells in us we have become odious to the holiness of God.

As men deal with God's people, let them expect to be themselves dealt with; with the froward he will wrestle.

Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

You have been told what is good and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, that you live justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)

The single cause to which Everett was perhaps most committed throughout his congressional term was resisting Indian Removal

Un hombre puede profesar religión y vivir en una forma de piedad en hipocresía. "Oíd esto, oh casa de Jacob, que son llamados por el nombre de Israel, y han salido de las aguas de Judá; que juran por el nombre del Señor, y hacen mención del Dios de Israel, pero no en la verdad, ni en la justicia".[138]

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'