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