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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"Nothing is more terrible than suffering for the innocent"
Sonya
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Don Quixote
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"We are all murderers when we refuse to share what we have."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"An injury forgiven can never be fully forgotten."
Edmond Dantès
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"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Javert
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny; mercy without justice is weakness."
Don Quixote
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"Society judges women far more harshly than men."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"Society's laws are often unjust."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"I cannot accept a world without justice."
Raskolnikov
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"Vengeance is a dish that is best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Edmond Dantès
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"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Vengeance is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice swift is sweet."
Edmond Dantès
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"Society's judgment is often crueler than any punishment"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, yet hasty justice creates new injustices."
Don Quixote
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"None of us deserves punishment more than I do."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The wretched of the earth are my people."
Jean Valjean
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"Crime is not merely an act, it is a state of being"
Raskolnikov
D
"Every man has the right to be judged by his own merits."
Don Quixote
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"The freedom that the poor man has won is not worth the bones of one dead child."
Ivan Karamazov
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"I wanted to murder the old woman, but I murdered myself."
Raskolnikov
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"The dead are beyond our vengeance and beyond our forgiveness."
Raskolnikov
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"There is something in the human soul that demands justice."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I cannot accept a harmony that is based on the unjust suffering of innocent children."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Revenge is the lent of the poor."
Edmond Dantès
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"Crime is a kind of madness."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Conscience is the voice of the soul."
Raskolnikov