Quotes about Justice
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
— Abraham Lincoln
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
— Harry S. Truman
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
— Pope John Paul II
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
— CS Lewis