quotations about justice
The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.
XENOPHON
Oeconomicus: On the Management of a Farm and Household
In most moral determinations wherein self is umpire, justice is hoodwinked.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will be regarded as just, without being examined, since they are established.
BLAISE PASCAL
Thoughts
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
IVAN KLIMA
Waiting for the Dark
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
"Secret Trials", Things That Have Interested Me
Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Justice Without Passion"
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime--namely, repressive justice.
SIMONE WEIL
"Human Personally"
Sell anything for justice, but look out for counterfeits.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
By justice a king gives a country stability.
BIBLE
Proverbs 29:4
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice
Justice, when carried to its final conclusion, often results in punishment, conflict, revenge and even war.
MASAO ABE
Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue
Justice is a fading light.
SHERYL CROW
"Love is a Good Thing"
The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
Justice often leans to the side of the purse hand.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.
THOMAS NIXON CARVER
Essays in Social Justice
If violence is the salvation of the brutes, the salvation of man is Justice.
CHARLES WAGNER
preface, Justice
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.
JOHN RAWLS
A Theory of Justice