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