Quotes about Justice
Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.
— Victor Hugo
Fex urbis, lex orbis (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
— Victor Hugo
The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)
— Victor Hugo
In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.
— Victor Hugo
The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.
— Victor Hugo
We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.
— Victor Hugo
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
— Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That
— Victor Hugo
The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
— Victor Hugo
To be wicked does not insure prosperity.
— Victor Hugo
Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.
— Victor Hugo
The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.
— Victor Hugo