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

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

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

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.

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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 probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

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

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

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

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Ethics and power are separate.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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

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

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.