Quotes about Justice
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
— Samuel Johnson
Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.
— Samuel Rutherford
the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.
— Samuel Rutherford
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
— Jimmy Carter
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
— Aristotle
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
— St. Basil
Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
— Mahatma Gandhi