Quotes about Justice

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

the man who really loves his country is not the one who refuses to attack it when he has been unjustly driven from it, but the man whose desire for it is so strong that he will shrink from nothing in his efforts to get back there again.

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

The field is leveled only in heaven.

The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins" (Proverbs 18:17).

God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.