Quotes about Justice

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don't matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.