Moral Justice Quotes

One would much rather that twenty guilty persons should escape the punishment of death, than that one innocent person should be condemned and suffer capitally.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

Evil gains work their punishment.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

Every law must be just in every part of it, but if the penalty annexed be unjust, how can it be held forth as a just law?

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.