Justice Quotes

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

~ Jim Krueger

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Lem glowered. Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged.

~ George R.r. Martin

The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.

~ F. Sionil José

What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand justice.

~ Erik Christian Haugaard

We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

~ Agatha Christie

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

~ Marcus Aurelius

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

~ Alexandre Dumas

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

~ Gary Goldstein

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of a continual critical reappropriation and reinterpretation. Up to this very day there is no alternative to it. And in light of the current challenges of a post-national constellation, we must draw sustenance now, as in the past, from this substance. Everything else is idle postmodern talk.

~ Jürgen Habermas

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

~ Socrates

The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

~ Bertrand Russell

Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice.

~ H.l. Mencken

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

~ Nafisa Haji

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

~ Jay Grewal

When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble.

~ Maryann Austin

Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.

~ Susan Cartwright

I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past.

~ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.

~ Alan Heathcock

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

~ Katherine Boo

It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.

~ George R.r. Martin

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

~ John Rawls

Injustice is relatively easy to bear, what stings is justice.

~ H.l. Mencken

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

~ Timothy J. Keller

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

~ Arundhati Roy

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

~ Gregory David Roberts

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

~ Adrian Rogers

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?

~ Sophocles

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

~ Kevin Deyoung

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

~ Thomas Browne

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

~ Charles Dickens