Justice Quotes and Sayings - Page 9
If you want peace work for justice.
Pope Paul VI
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus
When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Laurie Anderson
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world’s expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
Pope John Paul II
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
Judge Sturgess
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Justinian I
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charity isn’t a good substitute for justice
Jonathan Kozol
Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
Kemal Ataturk
If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
Josephine Ruffin
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.
George McGovern
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible of application.
Warren Earl Burger
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein
In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
Paul Farmer
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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