"Justice without force is powerless; force without..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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“Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.”
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“War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.”
“Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.”
“You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.”