quotations about justice
Truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established.
BLAISE PASCAL
Thoughts
In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
"Secret Trials", Things That Have Interested Me
Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Justice Without Passion"
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime--namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL
"Human Personally"
By justice a king gives a country stability.
BIBLE
Proverbs 29:4
Sell anything for justice, but look out for counterfeits.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
Justice, when carried to its final conclusion, often results in punishment, conflict, revenge and even war.
MASAO ABE
Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue
Justice is a fading light.
SHERYL CROW
"Love is a Good Thing"
The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
Justice often leans to the side of the purse hand.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
If violence is the salvation of the brutes, the salvation of man is Justice.
CHARLES WAGNER
preface, Justice
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice
Justice is a glorious and a communicative virtue, ordained for the common good of mankind, without any regard to itself. This it is, that keeps men from worrying one another, and preserves tranquility in the world. It is the bond of human society.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine