Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

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"It is a measure of society by the way it treats its weakest members."
Charles Dickens
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"The poor may be oppressed, but they are not silent."
Charles Dickens
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"The prison of poverty is built by the hands of the indifferent."
Charles Dickens
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"Society is built upon the backs of those willing to labor without complaint."
Émile Zola
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"The conflict between rich and poor is the secret of social unrest."
Honoré de Balzac
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the upper."
Victor Hugo
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"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
Victor Hugo
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"The supreme justice is only vengeance in reverse."
Victor Hugo
"Justice delayed is truth denied."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The heart of a good person never rests when injustice prevails."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and society must answer for its sins."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Justice delayed is an injustice to those who suffer for its tardiness."
Alexandre Dumas
"I may have conceived a project of absolute wickedness."
Mary Shelley
"The innocent are the first victims of any injustice."
Mary Shelley
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Mary Shelley
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"One must be passionate about justice or become complicit in injustice."
Émile Zola
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"Justice delayed is justice for no one."
Émile Zola
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"Why should woman suffer"
John Keats
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"A man who sees another man's misery and passes by is himself a miserable creature."
Charles Dickens
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"The law is an ass."
Charles Dickens
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"The most powerful weapon against injustice is truth."
Charles Dickens
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"The law is not made for the just; it is made for the unjust."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is injustice served."
Honoré de Balzac
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William Wordsworth
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"Justice is the conscience of society."
Victor Hugo
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"The supreme law of justice is conscience."
Victor Hugo
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Justice must be served."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Justice is slow but inevitable."
Mary Shelley