Quotes about Justice
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
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions.
— Philip Yancey
recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.
— Philip Yancey
From Jesus I learn that God is on the side of the sufferer.
— Philip Yancey
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about — like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
— Philip Yancey