Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"I am not wicked; I am merely misunderstood."Heathcliff
"I cannot be so easily reconciled to people of really bad character."Elizabeth Bennet
"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand"Madame Defarge
"I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will not have you as a relation."Jane Eyre
"Judge me by the actions of my life, not by the words of my enemies."Mr. Rochester
"Of penance I have had enough! None knows better than I."Roger Chillingworth
"The very law that condemns me is not absolute as it seems."Hester Prynne
"Dost thou not feel, then, a desire of revenge against thy enemy?"Roger Chillingworth
"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand"Madame Defarge
"Men pay a price for their sins"The Narrator
"How strange to accuse me of cruelty and treachery when I am the victim."Heathcliff
"The dread tribunal of justice waits for no man."The Narrator
"The act is immoral; be the agent who he may."Starbuck
"There is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."Pip
"Mr. Darcy is not in the least to blame."Jane Bennet
"The world will judge me a villain."Heathcliff
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as any of you,—but not quite so much heart."Jane Eyre
"I would not be unjust to him, even to save my own life."Jane Eyre
"Vengeance and retribution require a mind to conceive them and an arm to execute them"Madame Defarge
"Vengeance on a dumb brute! that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!"Starbuck
"Vengeance is a kind of wild justice."Heathcliff
"That old man!—if anything could make him just, it were this!"Arthur Dimmesdale
"Laws and principles are not for the same thing"Jane Eyre
"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule"The Narrator
"He had been driven and lashed into this evil by years of oppression"The Narrator
"Justice has long been blind to such horrors"Madame Defarge
"Tyranny is despicable in all its forms."Jane Eyre
"Cruelty is a sin I cannot forgive."Jane Eyre
"A kinder master would settle your affairs, and leave you something"Nelly Dean
"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."Madame Defarge