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