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