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 value of a person is not measured by their station but by their character."
Anne Brontë
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Anne Brontë
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Émile Zola
G
"Silence is a conspiracy of the comfortable against the uncomfortable."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of one portion of the community living on the labor of another."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I would die rather than submit to injustice."
Emily Brontë
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"The pursuit of justice is the pursuit of our deepest humanity."
George Eliot
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"The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself"
Charles Dickens
C
"The true test of civilization is not the census, but the kind of man the country turns out"
Charles Dickens
"The suffering of one being cannot be weighed against the happiness of another."
Émile Zola
"One cannot fake sincerity in the pursuit of justice."
Émile Zola
"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all endeavors."
Émile Zola
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Justice is the result of arrangement."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"A woman is not inferior because she knows not the principles of mechanics."
Honoré de Balzac
C
"Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
Victor Hugo
V
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Victor Hugo
"Justice without force is impotent; force without justice is tyranny."
Gustave Flaubert
"Every revolution begins with the individual soul awakening to injustice."
Émile Zola
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"Justice and compassion should walk together."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Alexandre Dumas
"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
Mary Shelley
"I shall never relent in my pursuit of justice."
Mary Shelley
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"Nothing is so unworthy as to submit tamely to injustice."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The pursuit of justice never ends."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"Justice must not compromise with evil."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"Every man has as much right to what he has earned as you have to what you have earned."
Charles Dickens