Quotes about Justice

Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

A unjust law, is no law at all.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

But the truth will win out.

God has found out the guilt of your servants;

Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.