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 is justice denied."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Justice is the foundation of all moral virtue."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Justice must be tempered with mercy."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Justice is the virtue which secures all others"
Théophile Gautier
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"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Justice is the foundation of all lasting peace."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and both are forms of cruelty."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Justice is a concept that fades as soon as we stop believing in it."
Paul Verlaine
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"Justice demands that we speak even when silence is comfortable."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Justice is the work of those willing to stand alone."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Justice must be tempered with mercy."
Paul Verlaine
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer now."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Justice is not about punishment but restoration."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Justice is the foundation of society."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to restrain the strong"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Justice without mercy is merely vengeance dressed in a robe"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Those who are kept down are brought up and then put down worse."
George Sand
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
George Sand
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"In the pursuit of justice, one must be willing to stand alone."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"In the face of injustice, silence becomes complicity."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The measure of civilization is how it treats its most vulnerable members."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"There is a point at which even justice does injury."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Generosity is the flower of justice."
George Sand
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"The greatest weapon against injustice is the written word."
Guy de Maupassant