Quotes About Justice

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Sports are a microcosm of society.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'