Marcus Garvey Quotes

Might was the measure of right.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

Only force rules. Force is the first law

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Where there's no might there's no right.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.