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 is a concept invented by the weak to constrain the strong."
Eça de Queirós
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"Justice is written by those who hold the power to enforce it."
Eça de Queirós
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"Justice requires that we see not just with our eyes, but with our conscience."
Saramago
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"Justice is not blind; it is often willfully unseeing."
Saramago
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."
Luís de Camões
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Austin Clarke
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"Justice without mercy is merely revenge."
Austin Clarke
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"Justice is what the powerful decide it should be."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Justice is a human invention, imperfect and forever incomplete."
John Banville
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"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to control the strong."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it corrupts the soul."
Padraig Colum
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"Justice is the anchor that keeps society from drifting into chaos."
Padraig Colum
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"Justice delayed is not just delayed; it is justice perverted."
Saramago
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"Justice delayed is a wound that never truly heals."
Luís de Camões
"Justice delayed is justice denied"
Patrick Kavanagh
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"Justice is the consolation prize of the powerless."
John Banville
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"Justice is the dream of the powerless."
John Banville
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"Justice is the privilege of those who win."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Justice is the story written by the victors."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Literature is the voice of the voiceless, the mirror of the unseen."
Austin Clarke
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"Every word we write is a small act of revolution against erasure."
Austin Clarke
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"Justice begins when we listen to the stories we have been taught to ignore."
Austin Clarke
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"All poetry, I would say, is political in the sense that it is serves justice."
Seamus Heaney
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Seamus Heaney
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"The justice we seek must first dwell within ourselves."
Padraig Colum
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"The mark of a civilized society is how it treats the weak."
Padraig Colum
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Padraig Colum
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"The true measure of a nation is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens."
Austin Clarke
"Justice delayed is not justice; it is a wound that keeps bleeding."
Patrick Kavanagh
"Justice is not merely law; it is the conscience of society made manifest."
Patrick Kavanagh