Quotes related to Amos 5:24
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.
- Ayn Rand
God hates us, I said. Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants. They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive? When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
- William Howard Taft
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
- Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison
Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
- Ernest Cline
Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
- Eugene Peterson
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
- Sonia Sotomayor