Justice Quotes

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

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"The pursuit of justice requires a heart willing to stand alone."
Alexandre Dumas
"Criticism is a serious business. One should have at least two hands to clap."
Gustave Flaubert
"There are men who would be improved by hanging."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The pursuit of wealth without virtue leads to spiritual bankruptcy."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Justice is the foundation upon which all civilizations must rest."
Honoré de Balzac
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"My sense of beauty never so much interferes with my sense of truth as to prevent me from being just."
John Keats
"Mercy endures through the ages."
William Wordsworth
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Revenge is not of the gods; it is of mankind."
Mary Shelley
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Mary Shelley
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
Victor Hugo
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"The hungry man has no respect for the law, order, or decency."
Victor Hugo
"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
Jane Austen
"Justice requires both head and heart."
William Wordsworth
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Lord Byron
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"Justice is the pillar upon which societies stand."
Lord Byron
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"In every distempered state, we shall find some one evil principle as the cause of many evils."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I would jump down Etna for any great public good."
John Keats
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"Yet I shall temper so justice with mercy."
John Milton
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"The good old cause for which we fought."
John Milton
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"If you prick us, do we not bleed?"
William Shakespeare
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"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit upon more than treachery."
Lord Byron
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"There is one criterion by which we may know whether or not a man is a snob: does he respect only the poor or the rich?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The greatest moral reformers are those who begin with themselves."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Virtue is its own reward, though the world often forgets to acknowledge it."
John Milton
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"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it is injustice confirmed."
John Milton
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"Justice tempered with mercy is the truest form of law."
John Milton
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"I love the principle, though I do not love the man."
John Keats