Javert

Character in Les Misérables From: Les Misérables

Inspector; embodiment of rigid law and justice

64 quotes

"Despair is the absolute weapon of the lost."
"The supreme penalty of murder is to be alive."
Justice
"Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal."
Justice
"Courage is a thing that cannot be given away; you either have it or you don't."
Courage
"A lie repeated becomes a prison of one's own making."
Truth
"The least cruel torture is the one we inflict upon ourselves."
Philosophy
"I am the night; I am the darkness that surrounds you."
Fear
"The supreme welfare of the state is the law."
"I am the night. But there is something I must say to the light. I exist too."
Philosophy
"The supreme penalty of life is to live."
Life
"What is hell? It is oneself."
Philosophy
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Justice
"Stupidity and dishonesty are two entirely different things."
Truth
"I am the night. It is my element and my domain."
Power
"The wretches of the earth are nothing; they are shadows."
Justice
"To cease suffering, one must cease sinning."
"I am the night. I am the abyss."
"Hell itself has a heart."
"I am the night. I am what stands between you and the abyss."
Justice
"Patience is the virtue of the weak."
Patience
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Justice
"Forgiveness is not weakness; it is strength."
Courage
"I had reached the summit of my ambition."
Power
"I am not afraid of the dark. I am afraid of what lies within it."
Fear
"I have lost my way in the world and cannot find it again."
Solitude
"I am the night. I belong to the darkness."
"What is this secret path? Where does it lead?"
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Justice
"Do you know what you are? You are an accident of fate, blown about by the winds of chance."
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
Wisdom