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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"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand."
Madame Defarge
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"That letter was meant for no such purpose."
Hester Prynne
T
"The grapes of Wrath are theirs"
The Narrator
E
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
E
"An unjust law is no law at all."
Edmond Dantès
C
"Justice and vengeance are but different names for the same thing."
Captain Ahab
F
"The poor have the same right to justice as the rich."
Fantine
P
"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
M
"Vengeance and retribution require a calm hand, said Madame Defarge"
Madame Defarge
T
"The wheel of justice turns, though slowly"
The Narrator
E
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
E
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Edmond Dantès
E
"The innocent must be protected at all costs."
Edmond Dantès
E
"Justice is blind, but conscience is not."
Edmond Dantès
A
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."
Anna Karenina
E
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
E
"I am the sum of your crimes, and that is why I am your judge."
Edmond Dantès
E
"I have learned that justice must be tempered with mercy."
Edmond Dantès
J
"The innocent must be protected at all costs."
Jean Valjean
L
"Forgiveness is not an action subsequent to the commission of a crime."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
H
"What is this but a mockery and an insult?"
Hester Prynne
E
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
D
"Lying is the trade of a lawyer."
Don Quixote
E
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"
Edmond Dantès
M
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"
Monte Cristo
M
"Between the criminal and the judge stands the avenger"
Monte Cristo
P
"It may be that those people suppose we are all equals."
Pip
A
"Art thou that woman? Art thou the one whom this scarlet letter binds?"
Arthur Dimmesdale
P
"Justice is not always served by the law."
Pierre Bezukhov
D
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Don Quixote