Justice

You can't have a good society without a good conception of the person.

The virtues are forms of knowledge, and moral principles are the product of past discoveries.

The love of our country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The ideal of the republic is diversity of human character, and hence the preservation of individuality.

God owes nothing to any of His creatures, and it would be an imperfection in Him if He did.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

A bad man is a good man's job.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage.

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The work of justice and compassion is never finished; it is a continuous journey.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be an apprenticeship for freedom.

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

He who will not be saved needs no preacher.

All humans are equal, whatever their color, race, sex, language, religion, or nationality.

Literature can, and always has, played a significant role in movements for social and political change.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

I write not just to be heard, but to give voice to the silenced, to echo the untold stories of a forgotten sisterhood.