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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 14In context
- Laws
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938
- Patriotism
There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Interview in Chicago (April 1936)
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant and racially marginalized communities has literally become big business.
Angela Davisborn 1944“Masked Racism” (1998)
- Race
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on Earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926Statement to the Court (1918)
- Freedom
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Children
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1868–9), Part 1, Chapter 2 (tr. Frederick Whishaw, 1887)
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
Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Lessons of the Hour (1894)
Shall we be citizens in war, and aliens in peace? Would that be just?
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“What the Black Man Wants”, speech in Boston (1865)
- War & Peace
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)
- Freedom
- Power
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
Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated.
Albert Einstein1879–1955My Credo (1932)
- Truth & Lies