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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"The silence of the witness is the applause that emboldens the perpetrator."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I have learned that forgiveness is a luxury I cannot afford."
Anna Akhmatova
"A nation's greatness is determined by how it treats its weakest members."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Justice must be blind to serve fairly."
Maxim Gorky
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Maxim Gorky
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"Justice is what the powerful convince the weak is fair."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are punished not for our sins, but by them."
August Strindberg
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Justice demands we see others as we wish to be seen."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Justice is not what law says, but what conscience demands."
Boris Pasternak
B
"Justice is the debt we owe to those who cannot speak."
Boris Pasternak
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Art should refuse to sanction any longer the disorder, the injustice that reigns."
Maxim Gorky
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"The worker is entitled to his security in old age and his independence."
Maxim Gorky
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"Punishment comes to us not for the evil deeds we have committed, but for those we could have prevented."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I do not ask for mercy; I ask only for understanding."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The greatest betrayal is to betray oneself in service to others."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The voice of the voiceless is the voice of the poet."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Tolerance of the intolerable only breeds more intolerance."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"If everyone is guilty, then no one is; the very concept of guilt loses all meaning."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"We are all guilty of the evil we cause."
Mikhail Lermontov
M
"Justice must be blind to falsehood."
Mikhail Lermontov
M
"Justice protects the innocent."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Justice delayed is justice abandoned."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Justice must prevail in all things."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Integrity cannot be borrowed or purchased."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The quest for justice often leads to injustice."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Justice without mercy is merely revenge in formal dress."
Boris Pasternak
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"Justice without mercy is not justice."
Maxim Gorky
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"Every human being deserves respect regardless of circumstance."
Maxim Gorky