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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"Justice moves in mysterious ways."
Justice Wargrave
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"We deserve what is coming."
Vera Claythorne
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"I have judged many in my lifetime."
Justice Wargrave
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"Justice comes to all eventually."
Justice Wargrave
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"For every thousand hacking at the branches of evil, there is one striking at the root."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is strong."
Zarathustra
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"Justice is a human invention. It has nothing to do with either God or Nature."
Justice Wargrave
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"Murder most foul requires a most careful hand."
Justice Wargrave
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"Murder is the worst of crimes."
Vera Claythorne
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"The Messenger's in prison now, being punished for next week."
The Red Queen
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"Suffering and incapacity shall be removed! Thus reason all your neighbours."
Zarathustra
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"The good and the just would like to crucify those who create their own virtue."
Zarathustra
Q
"Sentence first—verdict afterwards!"
Queen of Hearts
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"In my life I have loved justice. Now I am to be denied it."
Justice Wargrave
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, yet justice served wrongly is vengeance."
Justice Wargrave
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"We are all complicit in the world's injustices through our silence."
Justice Wargrave
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"Justice demands a price that the guilty must pay."
Justice Wargrave
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"Justice is not blind; it sees everything, remembers everything."
Justice Wargrave
J
"Justice was denied them in life; I grant it in death."
Justice Wargrave
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"Justice doesn't always come from the law"
Matilda Wormwood
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"I've been awfully wicked, and I deserve to be punished."
Anne Shirley
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"Sentence first—verdict afterwards!"
Queen of Hearts
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"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is powerful."
Zarathustra
Q
"Sentence first—verdict afterwards."
Queen of Hearts
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"The most important thing is rooting out the bad eggs."
Willy Wonka
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"Justice must be served to those who deserve it."
Miss Honey
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"That's hardly fair."
Alice
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"Injustice must be challenged, no matter the cost."
Matilda Wormwood
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"That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now."
Alice
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"I want no beastly boys and girls swallowing down my inventions."
Willy Wonka