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LitQuotes Found 12 Justice Quotes(Click on items in Author or Source column to see more items from that author or title.)
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| . . . Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |  | | But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | | | "A book," I observed, "might be written on the Injustice of the Just." | Anthony Hope | Dolly Dialogues | | | The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | | | "The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbors, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventure of the Copper Beeches | | | Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | | | ". . . And when it come to character, warn't it Compeyson as had been to the school, and warn't it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn't it him as had been know'd by witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups? And when it come to speech-making, warn't it Compeyson as could speak to 'em wi' his face dropping every now and then into his white pocket-handkercher - ah! and wi' verses in his speech, too - and warn't it me as could only say, 'Gentlemen, this man at my side is a most precious rascal'? And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty? . . . " | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | | | Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement. | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | | | "It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance." | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | | | "There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | | | Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear? Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king. | James Joyce | Ulysses | | | Every human institution (justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
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