Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"I'm colorblind. I don't see colors. I see people," Atticus said firmly, though I didn't think he meant it literally."Atticus Finch
"Justice without mercy is cruelty"Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
"The Party is not interested in the crime: the thought is all we care about."O'Brien
"I cannot accept a harmony that requires the tears of even one tortured child"Ivan Karamazov
"A child's tears cry out against the injustice of existence"Ivan Karamazov
"I'm not saying they're not just doing their job. I'm just saying it don't make it right."Randle McMurphy
"Every person deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of station."Jean Valjean
"One must be just before one is generous."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"Rebellion is the only sane response."Randle McMurphy
"The institution breaks you down piece by piece."Chief Bromden
"They call it treatment, but it's really punishment."Chief Bromden
"The institution crushes individuality systematically."Chief Bromden
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter."O'Brien
"A just man's only duty is to be just"Ivan Karamazov
"We're prisoners in here, just like anywhere else."Chief Bromden
"Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle."Yossarian
"All men are equal before death and before God"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to if the commanding officer approves. But he won't approve."Yossarian
"Civilized men and women are punished so far as they are individuals."Mustapha Mond
"I hate it when somebody gets killed in a movie on account of somebody else."Holden Caulfield
"Prostitution is a terrible thing. I mean for the women."Milo Minderbinder
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."Pierre Bezukhov
"The measure of a man is how he treats those who cannot benefit him"Pierre Bezukhov
"Confession is the beginning of purification."O'Brien
"Pity is not a good sentiment. It is contemptible."Javert
"There was no justice, no dignity, no righteousness anywhere."Yossarian
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, but I can't do anything on my own."Yossarian
"We are all responsible for everything."Pierre Bezukhov
"Power without conscience is tyranny."Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"No animal shall sleep in a bed"Old Major