Quotes about Justice
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
— Charles Dickens
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
— Oscar Romero
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
— Alexander Hamilton
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
— John Calvin
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
— CS Lewis
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
— Pope John Paul II
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
— Victor Hugo
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
— Albert Schweitzer
Violence and war lead only to death.
— Pope Francis