Quotes About Justice

God is just!' said a carping theologian to me the other day. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and he cannot be pleased that you should call that justice which is injustice, and attribute it to him!

Justice demands your punishment, because justice demands, and will have, the destruction of sin.

that for God to give a man because he asked for it that which was not in harmony with his laws of truth and right, would be to damn him-to cast him into the outer darkness.

revenge is," as Lord Bacon says, "a kind of wild justice," and is easily satisfied. The hearts desire upon such a one's enemies is best met and granted when the hate is changed into love and compassion.

Had Job been Calvinist or Lutheran, the book of Job would have been very different. His perplexity would then have been—how God being just, could require of a man more than he could do, and punish him as if his sin were that of a perfect being who chose to do the evil of which he knew all the enormity.

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Inequality was the price of civilization.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

There was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching.

Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.

Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong

All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.

The old civilisations claimed that they were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything.

M?i con v?t ??u bình ??ng, nhÆ°ng má»™t s? con v?t bình ??ng hÆ¡n nh?ng con khác.

Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.

I have no particular love for the idealized 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded

Where there is equality there can be sanity.

Los altos quieren quedarse donde están; los medianos quieren arrebatarle su puesto a los altos; los bajos quieren abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en la que todos sean iguales.

It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.

Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.