Quotes about Justice

With remarkable consistency the prophets, who depict God's anger in painfully vivid ways, allow us to see anger as a proper response to human injustice, the terrible wrongs we inflict on others, especially on those least able to defend themselves.

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

Property is organized robbery.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

Moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.

The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.