Quotes about Justice
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
— NT Wright
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
— Ronald Reagan
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
— Khalil Gibran
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
— John F. Kennedy
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
— Martin Luther King III
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
— Abraham Lincoln
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther