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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"Better never means better for everyone"
Moira
C
"Everything you done to me, already done to you."
Celie
J
"Hear me. Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
O
"I am not your justification for existence."
Offred
O
"We are for breeding purposes: we are two-legged wombs."
Offred
J
"The supreme penalty of your crime is to live."
Javert
J
"The law is a manifestation of God's will."
Javert
O
"We are human beings but we have no rights"
Offred
T
"Being invisible and without substance, to whom could I complain?"
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
C
"Everything you done to me already done to you."
Celie
J
"You are my warrant. You follow me as the truth follows justice."
Judge Holden
M
"There is no honor in what you have done."
Mariam
J
"I ain't ever done you no harm."
Jim
P
"A nigger ain't got no rights nohow."
Pap Finn
J
"Mercy belongs to the living; vengeance to the dead."
Jean Valjean
T
"The cost of survival is often borne by the most vulnerable."
The Narrator (omniscient)
T
"The price of transgression is paid by the innocent."
The Narrator (omniscient)
T
"The law protects those with power and punishes those without."
The Narrator (omniscient)
C
"Anything you done to us, already done to you."
Celie
T
"They all broke the law. The law that needed to be broken."
The Narrator (omniscient)
T
"Some wrongs cannot be righted by the law."
The Narrator (omniscient)
J
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical."
Jean Valjean
O
"I want to be valued for what I can do, not what I am."
Offred
O
"The ones we worked on, if we can use the word worked."
Offred
B
"She had not considered herself capable of such cruelty."
Briony Tallis
T
"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you wife and handmaid"
The Commander
T
"Justice is a luxury they could not afford."
The Narrator (omniscient)
M
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Marius Pontmercy
M
"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral."
Marius Pontmercy
H
"I reckon a nigger ain't a human."
Huckleberry Finn