Monday, 26 May 2025

SOME QUOTES ON JUSTICE

 

          SOME QUOTES ON JUSTICE

            Justice is defined as :  the ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and that, where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken  in such a way that both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions.   

            Some popular quotes on justice read as follows.

*Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs, ----American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82).

**Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations, as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang of robbers.----American statesman  and author Benjamin Franklin (1706-90).

***One man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides. ---German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832).

****Justice is to give every man his own.---Greek philosopher and polymath  Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC).

*****Justice is the idea of God; the ideal of men; the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. ---American transcendentalist and reforming  minister Theodore Parker (1810-1860).

******Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and improvement and progress of our race.---Daniel Webster , Lawyer and former United States Secretary of State (1782-1852).

            Finally, the following viewpoints:

            Justice consists in doing no injury to anyone in the world.

            There should be no war to settle any dispute.

            Might  should never be considered as right.

            Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just             may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.    

                                                            *******

G.R.Kanwal

26 May 2025

 

 

 

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