“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.” IfsMindJusticePowerfulPromiseConscienceAngryRewardsEndureBusyMinistersMost PowerfulSubmitFarewellOffendedTranquilReproof Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.” FeelsRealityMightWould BeCommunityJusticeGriefSupportMurderVictimAngryGuiltCriminalsAshamedFearfulIsolatedOverwhelmedOld FriendsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemMurder Victims Author:Eric Schlosser
“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.” IfsWellsLooksCausesJusticeAngryInjusticeUnjustImmoral Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.” LoveJusticeAngryFortuneEnvyIngredientsMixturesGood FortuneEnviedEnvy And Success Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.” HeartMadeMomentsJusticePleasureBloodReadyPromiseAngryMereObligationDrunkStringsBowsBentWrathArrows Author:Jonathan Edwards