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