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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"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
"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
"One must be passionate about justice or become complicit in injustice."
Émile Zola
"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