Quotes about Justice
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
— Elton John
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
— Barack Obama
Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.
— Stanley Hauerwas
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.
— Stephen Covey
Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.
— Miroslav Volf
Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.
— Henry B. Eyring
Sexual harassment does bring shame.
— Tarana Burke