Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

Love is more just than justice.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

Be just before you are generous.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

Let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.