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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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

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

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.