Quotes about Justice
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
— St. Augustine
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
— Dante Alighieri
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
— Ronald Reagan
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
— Aristotle
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
— Jimmy Carter
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
— CS Lewis
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
— Oscar Wilde
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
— Pope Francis
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer