Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
The Negro does not want love. He wants justice. . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.
If money doesn't come with misery, then it's not at all interesting and it's not at all fair. It seems if you have all this money, and no misery, you're really in a world of unalloyed happiness, and that seems to violate some deep principle of universal justice. We tend to live in a culture now where people have unbelievable, inconceivable amounts of money without any kind of remorse.
Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.
Justice by any and all means necessary.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Justice is Equality. . . but equality of what?
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.
The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.
