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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our power comes from the earth — Luis Alberto Urrea

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. — Mary Robinson

Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. — Gerry Spence

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. — Paulo Freire

Whites have traded their culture for power. — Eileen O'Brien

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. — Samantha Power

The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. — John Paul Stevens

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are. — Sam Killermann

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. — Baltasar Gracian

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice — Bertrand Russell

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way. — Victoria Justice

There is no power without justice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I've come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power. — William T. Vollmann

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe. — Kevin Cook

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. — Derrick A. Bell

One who abuses his power, unaware that one day will be the victim of his own abuses — Miguel El Portugues

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. — Noam Chomsky

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice. — Jackson Katz

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite. — Sophocles

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard. — Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Justice. That's what we're supposed to be learning.The law ... the law should be fair. Power should be used fairly. — Anne Osterlund

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. — Blaise Pascal

Rules of taste enforce structures of power. — Susan Sontag

Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice. — E'yen A. Gardner

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will. — Philemon

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. — Thomas Jefferson

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love? — Barack Obama

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit. — Harry S. Truman

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? — Woodrow Wilson

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick A. Bell

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke

The power to kill does not come without responsibility — Kenneth Eade

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties. — Jeff Sessions

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. — Loretta Lynch

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me — J. Leigh Bralick

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt

...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel... — Thucydides

There is no strength without justice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side. — Polly Shulman

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions — Tacitus

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience, — Gary Haugen

We had become a country that valued security over freedom, power over justice, and war over peace. — Robert Kroese

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast. — Plutarch

We are not seeking power. We are seeking the end of power! ... The means are the end. ... Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice! — Ursula K. Le Guin

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. — Aeschylus

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume. — Ludwig Von Mises