Pain Justice Quotes

#1. The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.

Bryant McGill

#2. All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph De Maistre

#3. Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.

Erica O'Rourke

#4. Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.

Alan Heathcock

#5. A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

Auliq Ice

#6. When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#7. It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.

Upton Sinclair

#8. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

#9. Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."

~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.

Antoinette Bosco

#11. It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Bono

#12. I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.

Mie Hansson

#13. It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Helen Prejean

#14. Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Dante Alighieri

#15. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

Bella Abzug

#17. Compassion stirs us to remove the pain of the world. Justice stirs us to remove its cause.

Randy Lewis

#18. I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

Duane Swierczynski

#19. We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

Richard Dahlstrom

#20. Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work
hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss
loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.

Jean Vanier

#21. We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.

Bruce R. McConkie

#22. So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

George Eliot

#23. There was some justice in his pain

Colleen McCullough

#24. Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Lewis B. Smedes

#25. Sometimes justice is better served by those who have experienced the pain

Mark W. Boyer

#26. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott

#27. Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Dean Koontz

#28. There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice.

Aysha Taryam

#29. Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

R.M. Ford

#30. Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

David Gerrold

#31. If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Audre Lorde

#32. We will not open healed wounds!"
"My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!

V.C. Andrews

#33. Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal if you are a talented thief, and if you are not, then you may suffer all you please but if will buy you nothing but pain.

Karen Maitland

#34. Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

D. Todd Christofferson

#35. There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption
Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

William Hazlitt

#36. Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.

Aysha Taryam

#37. Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.

Dimitri A. Bogazianos

#38. 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.

Diana Gabaldon

#39. That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Oscar Romero

#40. I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice.

Jonathan Balcombe

#41. The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Robert Kennedy