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George Eliot Quotes about Justice

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Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

George Eliot
Justice, Kingdoms, Facts
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6233, Delphi Classics

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

George Eliot
Dog, Mean, Justice
George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.590

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

George Eliot
Spring, Giving, Justice
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.240, ShandonPress

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

George Eliot
Pain, Men, Justice
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6060, Delphi Classics

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