Doris Lessing Quotes

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.

Justice is that virtue that gives every man his due.

Justice, justice shall you pursue.

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all ... stood on the one side, and the Devil on the other, his cause being good, the Devil should have the right.

Necessity apportions impartially to high and low alike.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.