Quotes about Justice

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God's faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of Him, vindicate His wisdom and justice, and recognize His love in His very rebukes.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

It has not only detested beauty when produced at the price of justice; it has rejected the ritual when performed by the morally corrupted. Even religion itself, worship, was not considered to be an absolute. "Your prayers are an abomination," said Isaiah to the exploiters of the poor. Stay away from the synagogue, wrote the Gaon of Wilna to his household, if you cannot abstain from envy and gossiping about the dresses of your fellow attendants.