Quotes
Quotes about Justice
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,--all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of
ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
A democracy,--that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people;of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
"There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell;
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu."
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
The great truth of the world's injustice had been established for me
He cried out for justice when justice was ground under the heel of those whose duty was the maintenance of justice
Hell is an emanation of God's justice. But we believe that his love is greater than his justice. Hell has to exist ... but there may be nobody in it
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
