justice Quotes

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.