A theologian must be restless in the pursuit of ecological justice for all.
Justice Quotes
By a wide margin the most quotes here are Shakespeare’s, and the two judges who follow him, Lord Mansfield and Lord Kenyon, are a sign that this page leans on the bench as much as the stage. Seneca and John Rawls fill out the top five.
Among the sourced entries, Bierce’s definition from 1911 describes justice as a commodity the State sells to citizens as a reward for their allegiance, taxes and personal service. Sartre’s Dirty Hands (1948) and Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) are here for what they say about guilt, not courts.
Three lines carry flags: Marlowe’s “the justice of my quarrel,” Augustine on charity and withheld justice, and a Martin Luther King Jr. line about peace and justice being goals for man.
We need to work on new interpretations of Islamic Sharia’ law that are based on justice.
Leadership by justice is the best example in making a corruption-free country.
For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?
A crown and justice? Night and day
Shall first be yoked together.
I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to every man his due.