Quotes About Justice

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

Meritocratic sorting taught us that our success is our own doing, and so eroded our sense of indebtedness.

What matters for a meritocracy is that everyone has an equal chance to climb the ladder of success; it has nothing to say about how far apart the rungs on the ladder should be. The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

Nó không d?y chúng ta cách phân bi?t Ä'úng sai, mà "ch? làm th? nào ?? tính toán gi?i hÆ¡n".

From Aristotle to the American republican tradition, from Hegel to Catholic social teaching, theories of contributive justice teach us that we are most fully human when we contribute to the common good and earn the esteem of our fellow citizens for the contributions we make.

Tôi không có quy?n tÆ°á»›c Ä'o?t Ä'i m?ng s?ng c?a chính b?n thân tôi hay ng??i khác.

B?n ph?i thá»±c hành [...]: "Chúng ta tr? thành ng??i công b?ng b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n công b?ng, tr? thành ng??i ôn hòa b?ng cách hành Ä'á»™ng ôn hòa, tr? thành ng??i dÅ©ng c?m b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n hành Ä'á»™ng dÅ©ng c?m".

But differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class.23

Sin embargo, ayudar a los desfavorecidos porque son víctimas de circunstancias que escapan a su control tiene un precio moral y cívico elevado. Da pábulo a la idea denigrante de que los perceptores de ayudas públicas tienen poco que contribuir y son incapaces de ser agentes responsables.

de que esos agravios no son solo económicos, sino también morales y culturales; de que no tienen que ver únicamente con los salarios y los puestos de trabajo, sino que atañen asimismo a la estima social.

Tenemos que preguntarnos si la solución a nuestro inflamable panorama político es llevar una vida más fiel al principio del mérito o si, por el contrario, debemos encontrarla en la búsqueda de un bien común más allá de tanta clasificación y tanto afán de éxito.

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

Recall the richly compensated meth dealer and the modestly paid high school teacher.)

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment.

acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn't want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.

what that post-Holocaust life ought to be.23

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

The greatest redemption is between the war of two evils, their very retaliation reveals their goodly nature.

Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.