Quotes about Justice
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
— John Owen
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
— Euripides
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
— Anne Hutchinson
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
— Harry S. Truman
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
— Elbert Hubbard
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
— Epicurus
If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
— James Dobson
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world — with the longing that God should act, and the faith that he ultimately will.
— Christopher Wright