Quotes about Justice

Our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.

For, as far as this life of mortals is concerned, which is spent and ended in a few days, what does it matter under whose government a dying man lives, if they who govern do not force him to impiety and iniquity?

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

The love of God does not consist in tears or in this delight ad tenderness, which for the greater part we desire and find consolation in; but it consists in serving with justice and fortitude of soil and in humility. Without such service it seems to me we would be receiving everything and giving nothing.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.