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Quotes About Justice

most people would have multifarious possible rewarding lives, if we made a world that respected a life well lived: a life in which a person gave others their due, had rewarding relationships with family, friends, and fellow citizens, and pursued projects they had elected with passion and purpose.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
~ L. Frank Baum
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
~ L. Frank Baum
No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy. I will not fight, even to save my kingdom.
~ L. Frank Baum
Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same
~ L. Frank Baum
I do not know, my friend. It seems wrong somehow that the success of a race be measured by its ability to do violence.
~ L. Neil Smith
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.
~ Steven Wright
The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.
~ Seth MacFarlane
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
~ Timothy Keller
If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?
~ Mike Gabbard
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
~ Walter E. Williams
No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
~ Barack Obama
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
~ John Rawls
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
~ Clarence Darrow
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
~ Malcolm X
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
~ Desmond Tutu
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
~ E. Stanley Jones
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
~ Bill Watterson
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
~ Ralph Bunche
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
~ Robert A. Heinlein