Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"Justice delayed becomes injustice perfected."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"Justice requires not just action but a willingness to examine our own complicity."
Eugenio Montale
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"Justice without compassion is cruelty."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Justice requires courage and compassion."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Justice without love is tyranny."
Miguel de Unamuno
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"La justicia sin compasión es crueldad legalizada."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"La justicia verdadera incluye la compasión por el caído."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"La justicia sin misericordia es tiranía."
Garcilaso de la Vega
"Justice delayed is a wound that never fully heals."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"Power misused becomes tyranny; power shared becomes justice."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Envy is the pain of seeing another's good."
Francisco de Quevedo
"The quest for justice often requires the abandonment of comfort."
Luis de Góngora
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"Justice delayed is justice abandoned."
Ungaretti
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"Justice requires us to see through the eyes of the suffering."
Ungaretti
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"Justice is an ideal that mortals perpetually pursue but never quite capture."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"A society is measured not by its successes, but by how it treats its failures."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Justice is incomplete without compassion."
Eugenio Montale
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"The greatest violence is committed by those who believe they are righteous."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Injustice ripples through generations like stones in still water."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and both wound the soul."
Francisco de Quevedo
"The just person sleeps better than the successful tyrant."
Luis de Góngora
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"Justice delayed is justice betrayed in the heart."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Justice must be balanced with compassion"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Justice is the shadow cast by wounded hope"
Ungaretti
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"Justice is the dream that wakes us bleeding"
Ungaretti
"The measure of a civilization is not its monuments, but how it treats its vulnerable."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Justice is a dream that wakes us each morning to new disappointment."
Eugenio Montale
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"To understand justice, one must first understand the injustices one has perpetrated."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied, it is society's wound left to fester."
Garcilaso de la Vega