Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice delayed gives tyrants time to consolidate their strength."Robespierre
"In the end, we are all measured by the justice we have served."Robespierre
"In the marketplace of ideas, only truth can sustain a fair trade."Camille Desmoulins
"I have seen that love and justice are not opposites, but partners in transformation."Camille Desmoulins
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."Napoleon Bonaparte
"In diplomacy, yield when you must, but never surrender your principles."Otto von Bismarck
"Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually destroyed by injustice."Otto von Bismarck
"Persecution is not an argument; it is a confession."Otto von Bismarck
"Indifference to injustice is complicity with oppression."Jean-Paul Marat
"Clemency is the companion of justice."Robespierre
"Terror is only justice prompt, severe, and inflexible."Robespierre
"Mercy without justice is weakness; justice without mercy is tyranny."Robespierre
"The pursuit of justice requires us to become what we despise, a paradox of revolution."Camille Desmoulins
"The common people are the true foundation of any just society."Georges Danton
"Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue at all."Georges Danton
"In the marketplace of ideas, the strongest argument should prevail, not the loudest voice."Georges Danton
"A society that silences its critics is a society in decline."Georges Danton
"In the pursuit of justice, there are no minor struggles, only different battlefields."Georges Danton
"We must build systems that elevate the ordinary person, not systems that require extraordinary virtue."Georges Danton
"To sit idle while others suffer is to be complicit in that suffering."Georges Danton
"The revolution serves no purpose if it merely transfers power from one master to another."Georges Danton
"A just law is the foundation upon which all order must rest."Louis XVI
"Justice delayed is justice denied; swift judgment must be fair judgment."Louis XVI
"I was accused of sins I did not commit and denied the chance to defend myself."Marie Antoinette
"Justice is a concept invented by the strong to control the weak."Marie Antoinette
"The physician who ignores the suffering of the poor betrays the oath of his profession."Jean-Paul Marat
"Justice and truth ought to be the invariable character of a good magistrate."Marquis de Lafayette
"We must either punish the wicked or perish with them."Robespierre
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."Robespierre
"The corrupt always fear investigation."Robespierre