Home / Topics / Justice Quotes

Justice Quotes

Browse 7679 quotes about Justice.

Justice Quotes

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Thinking Littles Can Do Change Justice Knowledge Learning Failing Shapes Management Social Justice Deeds Range Our Thoughts Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.”

People Ifs World Firsts Doe Done Lasts Justice Blood Members Deserve Decided Prison Guilt Deeds Punishment Islands Consent Murderer Violation Civil Society Collaborators

Book:Practical Philosophy

Source: Practical Philosophy

“Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.”

Justice Acting Practice Habit Deeds

Author:Pythagoras

“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”

Reason Facts Care Justice Compassion Violence Promise Truth Is Deeds Deceit Cloaks Abnegation

Author:Steven Erikson

“When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.”

Goal Justice Judging Deeds Superiors Superiority

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”

Men Reality Dies Justice Forever Willing Deeds African American Good Deeds Live Forever Willing To Die Deeds Done Kind Deeds

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”

Humans Soul Reality Humanity Belief Justice Produce Ordinary South Deeds Glorious South Africa Nobility Human Soul Glorious Life

Author:Nelson Mandela

“While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.”

People Needs Should Heart May Christian Social Grows Goal Justice Expression News Social Justice Communicate Deeds Valuable Endeavor Good News Good Deeds Proclamation Christian Love

Author:Darrin Patrick