justice Quotes

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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