Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand."Madame Defarge
"That letter was meant for no such purpose."Hester Prynne
"The grapes of Wrath are theirs"The Narrator
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."Edmond Dantès
"An unjust law is no law at all."Edmond Dantès
"Justice and vengeance are but different names for the same thing."Captain Ahab
"The poor have the same right to justice as the rich."Fantine
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."Pip
"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand, said Madame Defarge"Madame Defarge
"The wheel of justice turns, though slowly"The Narrator
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."Edmond Dantès
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Edmond Dantès
"The innocent must be protected at all costs."Edmond Dantès
"Justice is blind, but conscience is not."Edmond Dantès
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."Anna Karenina
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."Edmond Dantès
"I am the sum of your crimes, and that is why I am your judge."Edmond Dantès
"I have learned that justice must be tempered with mercy."Edmond Dantès
"The innocent must be protected at all costs."Jean Valjean
"Forgiveness is not an action subsequent to the commission of a crime."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"What is this but a mockery and an insult?"Hester Prynne
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."Edmond Dantès
"Lying is the trade of a lawyer."Don Quixote
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"Edmond Dantès
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"Monte Cristo
"Between the criminal and the judge stands the avenger"Monte Cristo
"It may be that those people suppose we are all equals."Pip
"Art thou that woman? Art thou the one whom this scarlet letter binds?"Arthur Dimmesdale
"Justice is not always served by the law."Pierre Bezukhov
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Don Quixote