3,189 Quotes About Justice

Do not fight for peace, fight for justice instead, then you will automatically have peace.

Life designed by human society is like a TV serial full of drama and tension. Peace, prosperity, justice, equality, health -- These are just empty slogans flying around since the beginning. Society has no interest in these things. Society is interested in the drama and new episodes that get created when characters pursue these things.

Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.

The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

How do you stop those who will stop at nothing?

All discrimination, prejudice and segregation in the world are born of a segregated psyche - when the mind is divided, the world is bound to be divided, but when the mind is non-sectarian and whole, the world is bound to turn whole and non-sectarian. A whole world is a holy world, and a holy world is a humane world.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.