Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
Peace without justice is tyranny.