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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"The greatest crime is against oneself."
Raskolnikov
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"What is this but a fitting retribution"
Roger Chillingworth
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Don Quixote
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"The suffering of a single tortured child outweighs all the future harmonies."
Ivan Karamazov
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"We punish ourselves by our own guilt more than any judge can punish us."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I am not come to punish, but to punish myself."
Edmond Dantès
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"A man must become his own judge and executioner."
Edmond Dantès
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"We are punished not because we have sinned, but by our sins"
Sonya
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"A guilty man must be saved through suffering, not freed from it"
Sonya
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"Death is too good for some people; they deserve to live with their guilt"
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Justice without mercy is tyranny"
Don Quixote
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"Crime is a kind of sickness of the soul, and we must look upon every criminal as a sick man."
Porfiry Petrovich
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"Vengeance is a dish that is best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"Everyone is responsible to everyone else for everything"
Sonya
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"Mercy is the only true measure of justice"
Sonya
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
Atticus Finch
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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."
Atticus Finch
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"I'm simply defending niggers."
Atticus Finch
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"You don't understand what it was about the courtroom."
Scout Finch
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"Revenge is the lash of the wicked."
Abbé Faria
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"I have learned that mercy is the truest form of justice."
Edmond Dantès
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"The world punishes those who demand too much of it"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
Edmond Dantès
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"Justice delayed is justice denied."
Edmond Dantès
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"What have I done? I have killed a louse, a useless, vile creature."
Raskolnikov
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"The greatest crime is to deny our own humanity."
Sonya
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"Crime is a kind of illness with me"
Raskolnikov
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"To forgive is divine, but vengeance is human."
Edmond Dantès