Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

B
"When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father."
Baba
A
"We had both betrayed and been betrayed"
Amir
O
"No animal shall tyrannize over his own kind"
Old Major
J
"He is a corruption. He is not an equal oppressor"
Judge Holden
O
"No animal shall sleep in a bed"
Old Major
B
"Whitefolks have taken all I had. Not just material things. They took me, the me of me."
Baby Suggs
J
"A woman's virginity is a man's honor."
Jalil
S
"The milk will be shared equally among us all."
Squealer
O
"The human farmers had exploited us for centuries!"
Old Major
F
"The wretched of the earth are the ones who live in misery and darkness."
Fantine
J
"The law is harsh but it is the law."
Javert
S
"The law ain't worth a damn if it can't protect you."
Sheriff Bell
S
"Justice don't exist in this world."
Sheriff Bell
S
"Sometimes you got to git mad. Sometimes you got to let somebody know they done wrong you."
Sofia
A
"You think you can make a deal with me"
Anton Chigurh
A
"The money aint yours"
Anton Chigurh
C
"Until you do right by me, everything you touch will crumble."
Celie
S
"I'm going to help you get your children back"
Shug Avery
L
"Cruelty disguises itself as tradition."
Laila
C
"Until you do right by me, everything you touch will crumble."
Celie
J
"Judgement is a sacred office and you shall see the nature of that office."
Judge Holden
J
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience."
Jean Valjean
T
"Society creates invisibility through indifference."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."
Offred
H
"There's more honor in a man than in the whole world."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I knowed he was white inside."
Huckleberry Finn
J
"All that falls must be accounted for."
Judge Holden
C
"Until you do right by me, everything you touch will crumble."
Celie
T
"Greed corrupts institutions."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
C
"Every lick you hit me you hitting yourself."
Celie