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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"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Javert
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"He knows nothing of what he is doing."
Javert
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"Duty is what we owe."
Javert
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"The wretched of the earth, these are our people."
Jean Valjean
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"The repetition of a crime does not make it less criminal, but merely more routine."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Evil is a thing unto itself."
Judge Holden
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"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Justice must prevail."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The poor have the right to steal."
Jean Valjean
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"The innocent must be protected at all costs."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The innocent do not fear justice."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Evil is afoot when good men do nothing."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Where there is prejudice, there is ignorance."
Rubeus Hagrid
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"Pettigrew deserved to be caught."
Sirius Black
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"The innocent do not perish in the dark."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Whatever is not law is chaos. And chaos is the natural state."
Judge Holden
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
Ned Stark
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"This is a crime of passion, not the dark arts."
Albus Dumbledore
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"You can't judge an entire species by a handful of individuals."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
Ned Stark
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"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man."
Davos Seaworth
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"Ron Weasley, in the course of this year, you have irrevocably broken the Statute of Secrecy."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Buckbeak is innocent. Innocent!"
Rubeus Hagrid
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"Justice is a word."
Tyrion Lannister
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"Vengeance is a dark path with no end"
Catelyn Stark
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword"
Ned Stark
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"Justice served with mercy is the truest justice."
Albus Dumbledore
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"Pity is not agreeable to beggars; they never ask for that, they ask for justice."
Jean Valjean
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"I demand a trial by combat."
Tyrion Lannister
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"A good man must answer for his choices"
Stannis Baratheon