Quotes about Justice
No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it.
- Desmond Tutu
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
- George Bernard Shaw
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
- Harry S. Truman
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
- Mother Teresa
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
- Desmond Tutu
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
- Pope John Paul II
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.