It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Knowledge is power.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Justice is truth in action.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.