"Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven."

Henry Fielding Law See all quotes by Henry Fielding →

React to this quote

More by Henry Fielding

“...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.”

“His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”

“Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.”

“The dignity of history.”

“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”

“Life may as properly be called an art as any other.”

Resonant Thoughts

"That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal."

— Harry Styles

Music1994

#justice

"As taxpayers we gave one of Warren Buffet's companies, in 2006, an interest-free loan of $665 million dollars, and he only has to pay half of it back 28 years from now. ...Imagine ...you bought a hous…"

— David Cay Johnston

Economics1948

#justice

"I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some thin…"

— John Mayer

Music1977

#justice

"I'm all for Workers' Rights and stuff like that, that's fair enough. But imagine if you were working in a pub in some real rough-arse of inner-city North Dublin, ...and you're built like, say, me. And…"

— Ed Byrne

Literature1972

#justice