Justice Quotes - Page 9

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.