Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny."Ivan Turgenev
"Justice delayed is justice that transforms into tyranny."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."Anton Chekhov
"The most dangerous person is the one who believes absolutely in their own goodness."Mikhail Lermontov
"Justice is a concept invented by the strong to restrain the weak."Mikhail Lermontov
"Society rewards the cunning while punishing the honest."Nikolai Gogol
"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to restrain the strong."Nikolai Gogol
"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Justice without compassion is cruelty; compassion without justice is weakness."Maxim Gorky
"Justice delayed is justice denied; we must act with urgency for what is right."Maxim Gorky
"Justice delayed is justice denied to future generations."Ivan Turgenev
"Justice requires courage to speak truth to power."Ivan Turgenev
"The greatest injustice is silence in the face of wrongdoing."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Justice deferred is justice denied."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Justice without mercy is merely revenge."Mikhail Lermontov
"The path to justice is paved with the suffering of the innocent."Nikolai Gogol
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied but justice corrupted."Nikolai Gogol
"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people."Anton Chekhov
"A man should not be judged by his worst nor best moments."Leo Tolstoy
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The poor will always be among us, and that is tragedy."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Justice delayed is a wound that never fully heals."Aleksandr Pushkin
"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity."Ivan Turgenev
"The mark of a civilized society is how it treats its most vulnerable."Ivan Turgenev
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Ivan Turgenev
"Justice is a beautiful concept that reality has never quite achieved."Mikhail Lermontov
"Obey the law of the land and live under it."James Joyce
"We are all responsible for everyone and everything."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To recognize injustice and do nothing about it is to become complicit."Fyodor Dostoevsky