Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

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

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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

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

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

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

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

If you want peace, work for justice.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is impaired with the love of justice against offenders.

to a rational being there is but one rule of conduct, justice

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.