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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 Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 34In context
- Luck
- Time
Every human institution (justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIIn context
- Laws
When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it.
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context
- Friendship
- Responsibility
Once victim, always victim⁠—that’s the law!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Sixth: The Convert, Chapter XLVIIIn context
Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 35In context
- Anger
I have been Heaven’s substitute to recompense the good⁠—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 30In context
- Good & Evil
I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equivalent to his crime. A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a criminal.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Laws
If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Education
I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Part VIn context
- Laws
- Time
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Lion and the Mouse – The Fawn and His MotherIn context
- Power
The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out, and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is NOT found out.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Woman in White (1860), Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe, IIIIn context
- Wisdom
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 9:6 (KJV)In context
- Life & Death
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 18:25 (KJV)In context
- God
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
James Madison1751–1836Federalist No. 10 (November 22, 1787)In context