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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
One is often guilty by being too just.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.
Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Though justice be the solid foundation on which a society may be built, it is the transcendent virtue of mercy that lifts that society above the base stones of its foundation and makes it something great.
Honor is doing the right thing, when no one is looking.
Decency renders all things tolerable.
God is both Just and the Justifier.
Virtue is nothing else than right reason
God's holiness ... puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
Only the weak dare not be just.
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because the law makes them so.
A sense of justice is a noble fancy.
The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Virtue!
to be good and just
Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right
When you have the choice to be right, or kind, choose kind.
Justice for All in the World
This, and no other, is justice: - to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
Right is just and true.True-- Victor Hugo
strength and honor
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.
It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.
God is good, but God is also just.
Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice
do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?" "It
Redeeming love and retributive justice joined hands, so to speak, at Calvary, for there God showed himself to be "just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue;
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.
After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Part 1
A Just Man
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145)
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.
Let us be merciful as well as just.
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
The last thing the justice system is, is just.
Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
Kindness is the best form of justice.
We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.
Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
honor and valor that's what good is
To do a great right do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
To feel worthy, value others.