Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied but humanity diminished."
Eliza Haywood
"A woman's worth is not determined by her marriageability or her fertility."
Eliza Haywood
"Justice without mercy is tyranny wearing a crown."
Aphra Behn
"Justice delayed is injustice crystallized."
Aphra Behn
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"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Samuel Johnson
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"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
Samuel Johnson
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"Injustice anywhere diminishes justice everywhere."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Prejudice blinds us to the truth of others."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
M
"To act justly is to act courageously."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
W
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion."
William Blake
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice pursued is justice obtained."
Christina Rossetti
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"Justice delayed is justice destroyed; act with righteousness today."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Justice without mercy is merely vengeance wearing a judicial robe."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
Aphra Behn
"Women have been silent too long; now we must speak."
Aphra Behn
"A woman who speaks her mind is a woman who speaks for all."
Aphra Behn
"The greatest injustice is the silence of those who witness wrong."
Eliza Haywood
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"Lawyers are the storehouse of the law."
Jonathan Swift
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"Lawyers are the discovery and invention of every human mischief."
Jonathan Swift
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"Revenge is the wild justice which the wicked hope may take the place of divine justice."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
Eliza Haywood
"Justice delayed is kindness deferred to the innocent."
Christina Rossetti
"Justice delayed is a wound that never fully heals."
Christina Rossetti
S
"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."
Samuel Johnson
S
"It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to have their best virtues disregarded."
Samuel Johnson
"Women who are poor must depend on the generosity of men."
Aphra Behn
W
"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with bricks of Religion."
William Blake
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"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
William Blake
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"The worst of men are not those who break their laws but those who make them."
William Blake
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"Murder & Theft are no sins according to the Religion of the Pharisees."
William Blake