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 becomes injustice perfected."Francisco de Quevedo
"Justice requires not just action but a willingness to examine our own complicity."Eugenio Montale
"Justice without compassion is cruelty."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Justice requires courage and compassion."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Justice without love is tyranny."Miguel de Unamuno
"La justicia sin compasión es crueldad legalizada."Garcilaso de la Vega
"La justicia verdadera incluye la compasión por el caído."Garcilaso de la Vega
"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
"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
"Justice delayed is justice abandoned."Ungaretti
"Justice requires us to see through the eyes of the suffering."Ungaretti
"Justice is an ideal that mortals perpetually pursue but never quite capture."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"A society is measured not by its successes, but by how it treats its failures."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Justice is incomplete without compassion."Eugenio Montale
"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
"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
"Justice delayed is justice betrayed in the heart."Garcilaso de la Vega
"Justice without mercy is cruelty"Federigo Tozzi
"Justice must be balanced with compassion"Federigo Tozzi
"Justice is the shadow cast by wounded hope"Ungaretti
"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
"Justice is a dream that wakes us each morning to new disappointment."Eugenio Montale
"To understand justice, one must first understand the injustices one has perpetrated."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied, it is society's wound left to fester."Garcilaso de la Vega