Quotes About Justice

Socrates had just smiled and shook his head. To break the law, he told Crito, even a law that he knew was unjust, would be wrong. As he told his disciples many times, "one must not do wrong even when one is wronged."3 By doing wrong, a man did injury to his soul. Doing right, by contrast, makes his soul healthy and strong. A life of virtue is a life without compromise, Socrates believed, in which the goal is perfection according to an eternal standard.

the great, generous Russian people have been added in their naïve majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a League of Honor.

All the great peoples of democracy . . . have taken that place in the battle that was destined for them. They work for the triumph not of one alone, but of all."10

Aristotle insisted, the source of that justice is always the same: observation of the underlying order of nature.

The law is a means to an end—and what that end is depends on human desires and needs.

The law is a means to an end—and what that end is depends on human desires and needs. But somewhere, some basic principles have to stick.

In Avoca, Pennsylvania, an Austrian American was accused of criticizing the Red Cross. A group of vigilantes tied him up, hoisted him thirty feet in the air, and blasted him with water from a fire hose for a full hour.

with lawlessness freedom is inconsistent

When the ruler or rulers failed to act in the people's interest, Buchanan wrote, then each and every citizen, even "the lowest and meanest of men," had the sacred right and duty to resist that tyrant, even to the point of killing him.

So I have seen a man killed! An experience that, among others! Yes, I suppose I hav; although I can hardly be certain, And in a court of justice could never declare I had seen it. But a man was killed, I am told, in a place where I saw Something: a man was killed, I am told, and I saw something.

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

The demands of justice must be met; the requirements of God's holiness must be satisfied; the awful debt we incurred must be paid. And on the Cross this was done; done by none less than the Son of God; done perfectly; done once for all. "It is finished.

La gracia es una provisión para aquellos hombres que están tan caídos que no pueden levantar el hacha de la justicia, tan corruptos que no pueden cambiar su propia naturaleza, tan desobedientes a Dios que no pueden volverse a Él, tan ciegos que no pueden verlo, tan sordos que no pueden escucharlo, y tan muertos que Él mismo debe abrir sus tumbas y levantarlos a la resurrección.

One who was no less than the Fellow of Jehovah, the Radiance of His glory, the exact Impress of His Person. Thus we see that boundless love, inflexible justice and omnipotent power all combined to make possible the salvation of those who believe.

the potter forms his vessels for himself. Let man strive with his Maker as he will, the fact remains that he is nothing more than clay in the Heavenly Potter's hands, and while we know that God will deal justly with His creatures, that the Judge of all the earth will do right, nevertheless, He shapes His vessels for His own purpose and according to His own pleasure.

In conclusion, we would say that in forming Pharaoh God displayed neither justice nor injustice, but only His bare sovereignty.

While men are rational creatures they are justly accountable for all they do, whatever the disposition of their hearts.

Why were not these men of faith delivered like the others? Or, why were not the others suffered to be killed like these? Why should God's power interpose and rescue some and not the others? Why allow Stephen to be stoned to death, and then deliver Peter from prison?

God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?