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 world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Lord Byron
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Dante Alighieri
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"Justice is the foundation of all virtuous societies."
Dante Alighieri
"There exists in the human heart a love of justice that no tyranny can extinguish."
William Wordsworth
"To wronge no man, ne serve no man in vayne."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Measure for measure."
William Shakespeare
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"Praise is the reflection of virtue."
John Milton
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"Justice will not sleep, and neither can the just."
John Milton
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"Mercy without justice is the path to chaos."
John Milton
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"Everybody loves justice in other people's cases and hates it in their own."
Ovid
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"Let justice roll down like waters."
Virgil
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
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"Justice delayed is justice denied to those who suffer."
Dante Alighieri
D
"Justice is the foundation upon which civilization rests."
Dante Alighieri
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and injustice breeds only suffering."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Justice requires not merely punishment but genuine restoration and healing."
Geoffrey Chaucer
O
"Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere."
Ovid
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"Evil into good cannot be transform'd; but to work unto good by evil means."
John Milton
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"Justice delayed is justice denied and freedom suspended."
John Milton
J
"The wheel of law is righteousness; the axis of the wheel is truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Justice delayed is justice poisoned."
Virgil
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Homer
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"Justice is what love looks like in public."
Homer
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"Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is weakness"
Dante Alighieri
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"In the face of injustice, silence is complicity"
Dante Alighieri
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"Justice is what love looks like in public."
Pickering Edward
"Justice delayed is justice denied to all who seek it."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Ovid
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"Justice is the glue that holds society together."
Ovid