Justice Quotes

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

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"The fact that so many people shrug and accept injustice is the real tragedy of our time."
Saul Bellow
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and we delay it constantly."
Saul Bellow
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"Killing is not the problem; it's the justification that matters."
Joseph Heller
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"America is the lawyer's paradise."
Norman Mailer
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"Justice is a human construct, not a law of nature."
Norman Mailer
"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"We are all guilty of the same failures and weaknesses."
Saul Bellow
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"Justice is always the loser in war."
Joseph Heller
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is often wrong."
Joseph Heller
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"An act of violence by a private citizen is only of importance if it is also an act of imagination."
Norman Mailer
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"The world does not reward virtue, it punishes it."
Norman Mailer
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"The true measure of any society is how it treats its weakest."
William S. Burroughs
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"Who is the enemy that knows what must be done"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Justice is the highest calling"
Allen Ginsberg
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to control the strong."
Joseph Heller
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Joseph Heller
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"Justice must be pursued relentlessly."
William S. Burroughs
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"Justice is the art of giving each person exactly what they deserve."
Norman Mailer
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"Justice requires that we see the humanity in those we oppose."
Norman Mailer
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"If America is going to survive, it has got to understand that diversity is a strength"
Allen Ginsberg
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"America will be judged not by what we have but by what we do"
Allen Ginsberg
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"What is a country with no souls to inhabit it?"
William S. Burroughs
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"Loyalty to a person rather than to a principle is the fundamental corruption."
William S. Burroughs
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"Justice is the foundation of a just society."
William Carlos Williams
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"America is doing us a gray injustice."
Jack Kerouac
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"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."
Hart Crane
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Hart Crane
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"Justice requires both compassion and accountability"
Allen Ginsberg
"Natives of poverty, children of malheur, the man-shadows and the woman-shadows, must see their images reflected in the social order."
Wallace Stevens