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