Unbalanced Power Quotes

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

Overly concentrated power, whether in public, private or even in civic hands is an invitation to abuse.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a convent with death and an agreement with hell.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

…primogeniture was founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

Fairness and the Tories always seems to be an oxymoron.

Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.

However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.