Quotes about Justice

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

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.

The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.

The convict was transfigured into Christ.

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.

In democratic states, the only governments founded on justice, it sometimes happens that a faction usurps power; then the whole rises up, and the necessary vindication of its right may go so far as armed conflict.

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.