Quotes About Justice

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality

Before women gained the right to vote in America, many "had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural," historian Jean Baker observes. As the suffrage movement gained momentum, "a growing number of women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.

That's the only real life, the only thing that makes you know you're alive - the backward ache. That's what music is. The trouble - for me - is that at some stage I realized those miracles, those aches, they have a history. They're not private. The music's always about what someone's lost. That's what you hear, when it's good: the worlds people lost, the ones they want back. And once you hear it that way, you can't avoid it - that it's somehow about justice.

Forgetting one's participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In

Do you feel for the man hungry enough to steal?" Commander Ga asked as they drove by. "Or for the men who must hunt him down?" "Isn't it the bird who suffers?" Sun Moon asked.

The further south the throng went, the more reasons it discovered. Vendettas once sworn for half-forgotten offenses were remembered and invented with each passing blow. Everyone felt like a conduit of justice.

We are not taught to abide injustice through our faith; we are not taught to wait for Adonai to reach a hand down and save us. We are taught to faithfully destroy injustice; we are taught that to do so will force His hand.

To pay a price in advance, to the unjust, a price to prevent advances against your physical integrity -- that is to compromise your dignity. And dignity compromised is no longer dignity.

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

it is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

De la paleta de conceptos que estudia la filosofía política, este libro analiza cinco: la justicia social, la libertad, la igualdad, la comunidad y la democracia.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

24If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them.

19You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

a solution that was fair to all. (I said it, but I didn't

Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?

Dengan segala kehebatannya dalam dunia keilmuan, tengoklah bagaimana sikap 'tahu diri' seorang al-Ghazali. Beliau tetap menempatkan dirinya di bawah mazhab Shafii dalam soal metodologi ushul fiqh. Beliau tidak merasa lebih hebat dari Shafii. Banyak ilmuan besar Islam tetap memelihara sikap adil dan beradab dalam mengkaji dan menyebarkan ilmu kepada masyarakat.