--- title: "5 Cosmic Justice Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 5 Cosmic Justice quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Cosmic Justice sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c1/ta-nehisi-coates-733_amorality_ideas-like-cosmic-justice-collective-hop_1079529.png" --- > [“Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/ideas-like-cosmic-justice-collective-hope-and-national-redemption-had/) [Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ta-nehisi-coates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c1/ta-nehisi-coates-733_amorality_ideas-like-cosmic-justice-collective-hop_1079529.png) > [“It would be almost a public service to dangle the alternatives in front of the widow before Miles got her mind all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lois-mcmaster-bujold/it-would-be-almost-a-public-service-to-dangle-the-alternatives-in/) [Lois McMaster Bujold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lois-mcmaster-bujold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23b/lois-mcmaster-bujold-716_front-door_it-would-be-almost-a-public-service-to-d_1693608.jpg) > [As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-batchelor/as-for-the-law-of-moral-causation-karma-this-is-human-justice-dressed/) [Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-batchelor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/stephen-batchelor-5328_causation_as-for-the-law-of-moral-causation-karma_1755807.png) > [“Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/lamenting-the-vagaries-of-fate-may-leave-us-with-a-galling-sense-of/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/397/thomas-sowell-247_destiny_lamenting-the-vagaries-of-fate-may-leave_2236263.jpg) > [“I may have once had some thin faith in something like cosmic justice, but now I believe in box-cutters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sternbergh/i-may-have-once-had-some-thin-faith-in-something-like-cosmic-justice/) [Adam Sternbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-sternbergh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/adam-sternbergh-31345_justice_i-may-have-once-had-some-thin-faith-in-s_2465548.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cosmic-justice/#itemlist", "name": "Cosmic Justice Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. 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