Justice Quotes

"The law is not just."

"The other demands justice."

"Justice requires absolute responsibility."

"The law is always deconstructed."

"Justice is a kind of madness."

"Justice remains to come."

"The exchange principle extends its sway, reducing all particularity to abstract equivalence."

"Critical theory must retain solidarity with suffering humanity while maintaining intellectual rigor."

"Suffering and injustice remain the strongest arguments against the rationality of the existing world."

"The administered society achieves integration through the destruction of difference rather than genuine consensus."

"The legitimacy of modern law rests not on tradition or force, but on rational discourse among free and equal citizens."

"The burden of justification falls on those who exercise power over others."

"Procedural justice alone is insufficient; we must ask whether the procedures themselves are legitimate."

"Moral progress consists not in discovering pre-existing moral truths but in expanding our circle of those we recognize as equals."

"Abstract universalism that ignores particular vulnerabilities and differences becomes oppressive rather than emancipatory."

"Methods of punishment are not really about controlling the criminal; they are about controlling society."

"The exchange principle itself, along with all equalization, is a fact of violence."

"Justice is not a state to achieve but a continuous process of becoming just."

"Justice is incalculable; it exceeds all systems of law."

"The law is founded on a violence that founds rather than executes."

"Justice demands we exceed the rule, not merely follow it."

"Justice is what remains when all calculation ceases."

"Justice requires the recognition of the other's humanity."

"The pursuit of justice is never complete."

"Justice is never a given; it is always fought for"

"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic."

"Murder is not a crime in the eyes of a machine."

"The time is always ripe to do right."

"Justice cannot be calculated or reduced to a rule; it remains to come."

"The law is always unjust, yet justice requires respect for law."