Quotes About Justice

The moment one begins thinking about morality in terms of well-being, it becomes remarkably easy to discern a moral hierarchy across human societies.

The men and women on death row have some combination of bad genes, bad parents, bad ideas, and bad luck—which of these quantities, exactly, were they responsible for? No human being stands as author to his own genes or his upbringing, and yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character throughout life.

People who hold strong convictions without evidence, belong at the margins of our society, not in our halls of power.

Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin—which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in this life but eternal punishment in the next.

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

And those of us who work hard and follow the rules would not "deserve" our success in any deep sense.

Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much time on his hands; he has some unjustifiable beliefs about the nature of right and wrong.

It is worth remembering that if God created the world and all things in it, he created smallpox, plague, and filariasis. Any person who intentionally loosed such horrors upon the earth would be ground to dust for his crimes.

Identity must start with humanity as a founding principle, and human rights as a basis.

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

Be fair. Play hard.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.