Quotes About Justice

We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice.

The only power poor people have is their hunger.

Helping those hurt by change, and ensuring that its benefits are more widely shared, is the right thing to do;

but that was hardly a fair comparison.

Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ will rise up and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, 'the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

the Supreme Court of the United States is supposed to be free of politics. That's why these legalistic doofuses in silly-looking robes get a lifetime appointment and a free supply of arrogance to go with it. They're not supposed to be susceptible to bullying—upholding the Constitution is supposed to be a bully-free job.

And as for social justice, if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust. The

Turning a blind eye to evil, however, doesn't make it disappear. It allows it to grow. And those who allow evil to grow in order to protect their own convenience will be held accountable for the end results of the evil they facilitate.

Instead, morality must be boiled down to mere competition of interests, and the desire of human beings to avoid suffering and untimely death. In a state of nature, "nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice."5 If moral relativism began anywhere, it began in Hobbes.

We have the ability to treat everyone equally under law; we have the ability to create governments to protect individual rights. But we don't have the ability to guarantee that even two kids the same age living on the same street will start from the same point; two children growing up in the same family don't even start from the same point. We certainly don't have the ability to ensure that everyone ends at the same point.

That's how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you have the wrong ones, it'll ignore its own hypocrisy to nail you to the wall.

if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust.

Inequality by itself does not imply creation of poverty.

Thomas Sowell says, "When the rule of law is seen as a bias . . . the principles of the American Constitution [have been] quietly repealed.

And what gives Professor Commoner the right to take someone's property and hand it over to someone else? Only if there were no property rights would such a thing be acceptable.

On same-sex marriage, the question is not how same-sex marriage hurts your marriage – that's a nonsensical and stupid question, like asking how enslavement of others hurts you personally.

What, then, of communal capacity? The community was tasked with two separate functions: instilling virtue in the citizenry, and protecting the citizens from the violation of natural law.

The judge denied requests for a venue change despite the fact that the trial would take place in a city that had been wracked with riots, looting and burning over Floyd's death. One of the alternate jurors admitted, "I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again, and I was concerned about people

Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.' "

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We had a rock to defend, and we defended it. And the name of that rock is Liberty, and in that name I speak.

It won't be till each one of us is willing, Not you, not me, but every one of us, To hang upon a cross for every man Who suffers, starves and dies, Fight his sore battles as they were our own, And help him from the darkness and the mire, That there will be no crosses and no tyrants, No Herods and no slaves.

Why have you taken my heart from me? I am not justice nor loyalty. I am the shape of the weathercock, That all winds come to and all winds mock. You are the image of the sea-carved stone, The silent thing that can suffer alone, The little women are easier, The easy women make lighter love, I will not take your face to war, I will not carry your cast-off glove.

He shall not come to conquest, The conquest of kings, But in the bare stable He shall judge all things.