Quotes about Justice
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
— James Madison
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
— Cicero
When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.
— Marianne Williamson
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
— St. Augustine
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Cicero
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
— Frederick Douglass