Justice Quotes

"Where there is justice, there is hope for peace."

"The wretched of the earth require bread and poetry."

"The experience of hunger teaches us about justice."

"Justice demands that we protect the powerless from exploitation."

"The measure of a society is how it treats those who have nothing."

"The face of the Other speaks to me and says: thou shalt not kill."

"The widow, the orphan, and the stranger are the figures of the vulnerable Other."

"Justice begins with the obligation to the Other."

"Justice demands that I sacrifice myself for the Other."

"Justice extends beyond what is due to what is given freely."

"Justice begins where I refuse to pass judgment on the Other."

"The face of the Other forbids killing."

"The trace of the infinite guides us toward justice."

"Justice is served through humility before the Other."

"Justice demands we give more than we receive."

"We are called to repair the world through our ethical action."

"Justice demands we see the other as an end, never merely as a means."

"As a rule, it is the people who are no use at all who are most in favor of the death penalty."

"We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights."

"The banality of evil is perhaps the most terrifying feature of it."

"The greatest injustice is not to be punished for wrongdoing but to be ignored by society."

"Social mobility without genuine equality is merely rearranging the furniture on the Titanic."

"Human dignity cannot be granted or taken away; it can only be recognized or denied."

"Justice is the impossible demand we must endlessly pursue."

"Society is healed through genuine encounters between persons."

"The greatest sin is indifference to the suffering of others."

"Justice is impossible without the capacity to imagine the suffering of another."

"We cannot serve both justice and success—we must choose."

"The greatest violence is done to those whose work is reduced to pure mechanism."

"Justice requires not only fair laws but fair hearts to enforce them."