Quotes related to Amos 5:24
Injustice never rules forever.
- Seneca
One with the law is a majority.
- Calvin Coolidge
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
- Alexander Hamilton
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
- Henry David Thoreau
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
- George Washington
All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, I said to my poor prisoner, a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.
- JM Coetzee
All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.
- JM Coetzee
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
- Walt Whitman
They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.
- Alice Walker
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
- Charles Dickens
Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
- Epicurus