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
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Émile Zola
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"Silence is a conspiracy of the comfortable against the uncomfortable."
George Bernard Shaw
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"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
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"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
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"The true test of civilization is not the census, but the kind of man the country turns out"
Charles Dickens
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"The suffering of one being cannot be weighed against the happiness of another."
Émile Zola
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"One cannot fake sincerity in the pursuit of justice."
Émile Zola
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"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
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"A woman is not inferior because she knows not the principles of mechanics."
Honoré de Balzac
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Justice must not compromise with evil."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Every man has as much right to what he has earned as you have to what you have earned."
Charles Dickens