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if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all. -- Sayyid Qutb
My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way. -- Giulio Andreotti
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out. -- John Shelby Spong
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. -- Martin Seligman
The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice. -- Frans de Waal
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. -- Karl Kraus
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. -- Ben Whishaw
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world. -- Rush D. Holt, Jr.
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. -- Ferdinand Buisson
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. -- Edmund Burke
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness. -- Marcus Garvey
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. -- Alfred Day Hershey
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. -- Helen Suzman
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. -- Imelda Marcos
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. -- Ken MacLeod
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. -- Mortimer Adler
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. -- Conrad Black
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. -- Max Nordau
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. -- A. Philip Randolph
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity. -- Peter Kreeft
Justice is inseparable from truth in human life. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
To be human you must bear witness to justice. -- Cornel West
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. -- Coretta Scott King
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. -- Immanuel Kant
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. -- Irene Khan
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. -- Clarence Darrow
No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil. -- Melanie Phillips
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. -- Isabel Allende
I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope -- Dalai Lama
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience. -- Marty Rubin
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. -- Isaiah Berlin
Recognition of the genocide is a triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred. -- Serzh Sargsyan
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. -- Norman Cousins
One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ... -- Gwethalyn Graham
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God. -- Robinson Jeffers
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is. -- Thomas Noon Talfourd
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves. -- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. -- John Rawls
I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest. -- Remi Kanazi
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal. -- Namsoon Kang
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. -- John Ruskin
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles. -- Martin Schulz
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. -- Kim Dae-jung
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. -- George Washington
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. -- N. T. Wright
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people. -- Sai Baba
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. -- Susan B. Anthony
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights. -- Ronald Reagan
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? -- Edmund Burke
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. -- Magnus Hirschfeld
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. -- Theodore Parker
We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice. -- Narendra Modi
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another. -- Susan Neiman
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law. -- John Buchan
Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion. -- Carl Safina
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. -- Immanuel Kant
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. -- Wendell Berry
We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth. -- Wally Hickel
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines. -- Henry Giroux
Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern. -- William Wallace

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