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Request for help in finding a philosophical quote on justice
    #23434448 - 07/12/16 09:28 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Hi all,

I'm looking for a quote that is something like "the just were not able to be strong so the strong became the just"

Thank you in advance.


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Re: Request for help in finding a philosophical quote on justice [Re: NastyDHL]
    #23434543 - 07/12/16 10:14 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Justice, Might.β€”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. Justice without might is gainsaid, because there are always offenders; might without justice is condemned. We must then combine justice and might, and for this end make what is just strong, or what is strong just.   14
  Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has gainsaid justice, and has declared that it is she herself who is just. And thus being unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.   15

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The only universal rules are the laws of the country in ordinary affairs, and of the majority in others. Whence comes this? From the might which is in them. Hence it comes that kings, who have power of a different kind, do not follow the majority of their ministers.   16
  No doubt equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men have made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might; so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.   17




Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).  Thoughts.
The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.

Section V

Justice and the Reason of Effects

http://www.bartleby.com/48/1/5.html


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Re: Request for help in finding a philosophical quote on justice [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #23434558 - 07/12/16 10:21 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

THANK YOU!!! :toast:


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Re: Request for help in finding a philosophical quote on justice [Re: NastyDHL]
    #23434563 - 07/12/16 10:23 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

:japsmile:


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Re: Request for help in finding a philosophical quote on justice [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #23434578 - 07/12/16 10:33 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Nice get, DisoRDeR. :thumbup:


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