Justice Quotes

"Justice is not an abstract principle but a lived relation to concrete others."

"The stranger demands hospitality that knows no limits."

"I am accused by the other's nakedness before the world."

"Justice requires that I be responsible for the other without reciprocity."

"The face says: the other is not for you to judge."

"Justice is impossible without recognizing the other's absolute otherness."

"Justice demands that I am responsible beyond what I can know."

"Justice is the recognition that I am not alone in my subjectivity."

"The stranger's face is the place where ethics begins."

"Justice emerges from the encounter with the other's radical difference."

"Justice requires us to respond to the cry of the other."

"Evil arises when we treat persons as objects to be used."

"Justice requires structural change."

"Equality cannot be merely formal."

"Law reflects class interests."

"Justice requires stepping outside the law's closure."

"Justice withdraws from every judgment."

"Justice is invented by the weak to restrain the strong."

"The intellectuals serve the needs of the dominant class."

"Culture is not the property of the educated few."

"Justice is not given; it must be taken and built."

"Justice requires understanding the material conditions of society."

"The test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere."

"The measure of civilization is its treatment of those it deems inferior."

"Justice begins when I recognize my obligation to the stranger, the widow, and the orphan."

"The other's destitution precedes all ontological questioning."

"The widow, the orphan, and the stranger call upon my justice before any law."

"Justice requires that I never rest in my ethical responsibilities."

"Rationality without ethics is the violence of totalitarianism."