Quotes about Justice

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Life is not fair; God is.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One