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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"Who among us is the killer?"
Armstrong
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"Justice served is justice complete."
Justice Wargrave
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"We are all responsible for everything"
Shevek
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"In a just society, no one labors more than anyone else"
Takver
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, but no justice is more bitter than false justice."
Mikael Blomkvist
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"The system protects the guilty as often as it punishes them."
Mikael Blomkvist
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"Justice delayed becomes justice twisted into something unrecognizable."
Mikael Blomkvist
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"Justice is a human concept. It means different things to different people."
Justice Wargrave
J
"Accusation without evidence is a form of murder itself."
Justice Wargrave
J
"Innocence is a claim we all make, but few can prove."
Justice Wargrave
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"It is murder, but who the murderer is a different matter"
Sherlock Holmes
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"A guilty man will always betray himself"
Sherlock Holmes
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"Crime is common. Logic is rare."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The probability that we may be tempted over the border of the legal is slight."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Moriarty were in the streets of London."
Sherlock Holmes
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"It is characteristic of the criminal mind to suppose that all other minds work on the same basis as his own."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Justice is a human invention."
Justice Wargrave
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"We are none of us immune from justice."
Justice Wargrave
J
"No one is truly innocent."
Justice Wargrave
J
"The innocent suffer with the guilty."
Justice Wargrave
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"Quid pro quo, Clarice."
Hannibal Lecter
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"In a modest way I have combated evil, but I have never set myself up as a judge of my fellow-creatures."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
Sherlock Holmes
S
"The criminal code of the underworld."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I am not a murderer, though I am accused of murder."
Armstrong
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"The official detective may blunder upon the truth now and then, but all we other can reconstruct things mentally."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection."
Sherlock Holmes
J
"Justice is a human invention, not a natural law."
Justice Wargrave
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"The law applies even to the guilty."
Siddhartha
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"A psychologist today wouldn't tell you zip without a court order."
Jack Crawford