Justice Quotes

"Justice requires understanding the other's perspective."

"Justice is the pursuit of balance and fairness."

"Justice requires attending to particular circumstances."

"The first requirement for a sound body of law is that it should be understood."

"Justice requires transcending our narrow self-interest."

"Luck affects the moral evaluation of our actions deeply."

"Justice requires institutions that restrain human nature."

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of mankind."

"Justice must be blind."

"Rights and justice require that we see others as ends in themselves, not merely as means."

"The moral demands on us do not arise from external authority but from reason itself."

"Rights do not exist in nature but are created through social and political order."

"Moral realism is compatible with the recognition that morality is human-centered."

"Rights protect what is valuable in human beings, but not everything valuable is a right."

"Justice requires respecting the rational autonomy of others."

"Rights are normative constraints on how we may treat people."

"Justice requires both the mind's clarity and the heart's compassion"

"Justice without mercy is vengeance dressed in robes of righteousness"

"Our sense of justice must account for the subjective experiences of those affected by our actions."

"Moral progress requires expanding our recognition of others' subjective inner lives."

"The subjective dimensions of human life demand recognition in ethics and politics."

"Justice is not about punishment; it is about restoration and rehabilitation."

"Justice must be blind to power and wealth."

"The pursuit of justice demands we examine our own biases with ruthless honesty."

"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it is a different injustice entirely."

"Human dignity is rooted in our capacity for consciousness and intentionality."

"Moral luck reveals the contingency underlying our judgments of right and wrong."

"Ethics must grapple with facts we cannot change about human nature."

"Moral progress requires acknowledging moral luck and its implications."

"Morality requires more than evolutionary or naturalistic explanation."