Quotes about Justice
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— St. Augustine
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair? Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.
— Peter Kreeft
Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.
— Peter Kreeft
For any act to be morally right, three things are necessary: (1) right act, (2) right motive, and (3) right circumstances. If any one of these factors is not right, the act is wrong.
— Peter Kreeft
To exercise what Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called a right that is "at the heart of liberty"— namely, the right to determine for oneself the meaning of life and the mystery of human existence—is to tell God, "Get off my throne.
— Peter Kreeft
Murder and adultery are great crimes.
— Peter Kreeft
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
— Peter Kreeft
Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
— Philip K. Dick
The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.
— David Jeremiah
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
— Mary Harris Jones