Imbalance of Power Quotes

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.

Reprisals are an exception to the general rule of equity, that an innocent person ought not to suffer for the guilty.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

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

You can’t have simultaneous notification on important issues. Some people always get the word before others.

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

It’s going to take some give and take from the House Judiciary Chairman who doesn’t like to give and only likes to take.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.