Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than an hundred against it

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

Power is paradoxical.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power has no limits.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

I believe in power.

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Power reveals.

Power protects power.

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

Power must be strong.

His essence was force ... the relish of power, and command.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

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

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.