Inspirational Quotes on Justice

“Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?”

“Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

“Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert”

“There may be no great honour in killing a woman; such a victory can bring no fame. But I shall have some credit for having stamped dead a mortal sin, and punished a wrong which cries out for justice; and it will be joy to have gutted my desire for the vengeance of the fire and satisfied the ashes of all that were ever dear to me.”

“my elder told me once to care for most people exactly as one would for children, and for some of them as one would for the sick in hospitals.”

“إنني في حاجة إلى قصاص وعدل، وإلا دمرت نفسي. وهذا القصاص الذي أطالب به، أنا لا أريده في لا نهاية لا يمكن الوصول إليها، وفي أبدية تفوقني، وإنما أنا أريد أن أراه على هذه الأرض، أن أراه بعيني.”

“And he said, This schoolroom is an immense town, and in it there are a million inhabitants, and only five-and-twenty are starved to death in the streets, in the course of a year. What is your remark on that proportion? And my remark was- for I couldn't think of a better one- that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved , whether the others were a million, or a million million.”

“If people have no respect for God, no love for their Maker, I would ask the question another way: Why not pillage, rape, persecute and murder? If it feels good, and they can get away with it, why not? If God is dead or does not exist, as these people believe, why are not all things permitted? Why should they restrain themselves? Because it’s just wrong? Because it’s not the way civilized people behave? Because what goes around comes around? Because they’ll end up feeling terrible inside? Within tidy circles of properly socialized and reasonable people, such appeals can seem like they actually have the power to restrain people from doing what they otherwise feel like doing. But in the real world outside the philosophy seminar room, oppressors frankly don’t care that you think it’s just wrong. Who are you, they ask, to foist your random moral intuition on them? Who are you to tell them or the lords of the Third Reich what civilized people should and should not do? If what goes around tends to come around, then there’s no moral problem, only a practical problem of making sure it doesn’t come around to you. They think, Fine, if being brutal makes you feel terrible inside, then don’t do it. But it makes me feel powerful, alive, exhilarated and masterful, so quit whining — unless you want to try to stop me. This description of a dark Nietzschean world of self-will — a vacuum devoid of moral authority or spiritual resources for good — used to sen excessively melodramatic to me. But then I got out more. The world is truly full of brutal oppression because humans have rejected their Maker, the source of all goodness, mercy, compassion, truth, justice, and love.”

“I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much much more effectively than the people of good will.”

“The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction of justice, He would cease to be a God of justice and would thus forfeit His throne of righteousness. In a word, He would cease to be God.”

“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”

“The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.”

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”

“All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.”

“Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.”

“The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.”

“Ravenous birds and the standards of the Roman army, ready to devour a people, reprobated and given up, as a dead carcass, by Providence.”

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ”

“Punishment is justice for the unjust. ”