Robert Fulghum Quotes

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

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.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Justice comes before charity.

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.

there's no justice, there's only love.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.