Justice Quotes

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

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"The sun shines over all things equally; to each according to its nature."
Herman Melville
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"Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned."
Anatole France
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges."
Anatole France
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"The desire for justice is a noble thing."
Anatole France
"The poor are not lazy; they are simply born into a game they cannot win."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Justice is a concept invented by the strong to control the weak."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The greatest injustice is to treat injustice as inevitable."
François Mauriac
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"Justice requires that we see others as ourselves."
François Mauriac
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"The most triumphant hour in human life is when she has successfully subdued the selfish and has given all to the common good."
Emily Dickinson
"The law that will work is that which you like."
Mark Twain
"The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence."
Mark Twain
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"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport."
Herman Melville
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"In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"An individual's right to be heard does not mean he will be believed."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Justice is whatever the strong decide it to be."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Justice is the foundation of peace."
Romain Rolland
"Justice is the conscience of society."
Romain Rolland
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor alike from stealing bread or sleeping under bridges."
Anatole France
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"It is impossible to be just if one is not generous."
Anatole France
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"A good society protects not its heroes, but its most vulnerable members."
François Mauriac
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"The pursuit of justice often requires us to act without certainty of success."
François Mauriac
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"Justice delayed is more than justice denied; it is a wound to the soul"
Henry James
"Men are not born equal, they are made equal by their deeds."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"There is a kind of justice in the division of gifts."
André Gide
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"I am not, nor ever was, a believer in the sort of institution called charity."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Our very worst punishments come to us through the very faculties that might have been our greatest assets."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The voice of conscience is louder than the voice of the crowd."
Romain Rolland
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Romain Rolland
"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."
Romain Rolland
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"Justice is not achieved through punishment, but through understanding."
François Mauriac