Quotes about Justice
God has found out the guilt of your servants;
— Martin Luther
Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.
— Martin Luther
It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.
— Martin Luther
Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.
— Martin Luther
On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.
— Martin Luther
Therefore the ungodly will not rise in the judgment," because the Jews do not confess their wrong and do not accuse themselves. But as the righteous man is the first to accuse himself, so the ungodly man is the first to defend himself. Thus the Jews do not accuse their own ungodliness but defend it.
— Martin Luther
Therefore we are taught here that true vengeance is carried out, not by our passion but by God's command and on account of God. We are only the instruments of the avenging God, and we arrogate nothing of the vengeance to ourselves, as you see here.
— Martin Luther
For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.
— Martin Luther
The sin and wrath which Moses arouses through his ministry that Prophet cancels through righteousness and grace by His ministry.
— Martin Luther
It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship
— Martin Luther
For whatever is said against a righteous man is said indirectly against God, who is in the righteous.
— Martin Luther
But it is God who smites the godless, as he says here.
— Martin Luther