Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"Justice is an ideal we strive toward."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Vengeance is the lust of the gods."Edmond Dantès
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Edmond Dantès
"Justice is the greatest of all virtues."Don Quixote
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral."Jean Valjean
"If thou feelest it to be for the best, let the sun shine on my infamy as well as on yours."Hester Prynne
"Vengeance is a dish best served cold"Edmond Dantès
"Justice must be served, regardless of the cost"Edmond Dantès
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"Edmond Dantès
"I wanted to transgress and I transgressed."Raskolnikov
"The innocent suffer most."Raskolnikov
"I have created my own hell."Raskolnikov
"The poor are not pitied because they are poor, but because they are superfluous"Raskolnikov
"I am convinced that one mean, scheming man may be made as miserable as he deserves."Elizabeth Bennet
"One should always forgive one's enemies; but not before they are hanged."Edmond Dantès
"Justice is often blind to the truth."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"I have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the most sacred things."Raskolnikov
"I have discovered that it is not the criminal who is to be pitied, but the victim."Porfiry Petrovich
"Justice without mercy is cruelty."Sonya
"We punish ourselves far more severely than any judge."Raskolnikov
"Every evil act carries within it the seed of its own punishment."Porfiry Petrovich
"True nobility lies not in birth or wealth, but in the conduct of one's life."Don Quixote
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."Edmond Dantès
"Thou hast wronged neither me nor it! There is no law, nor reverence for authority, nor regard for human ordances."Arthur Dimmesdale
"The pursuit of justice is the noblest of all quests."Don Quixote
"I recognize that society is organized on wrong principles."Raskolnikov
"The greatest crimes are committed in the name of reason."Raskolnikov
"I am the living and invisible punishment for crime."Edmond Dantès
"The pursuit of justice consumes the pursuer."Edmond Dantès
"The law of nature is justice itself."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)