Quotes on Justice And Injustice

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.