Governing Quote by Georges Bernanos

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?”

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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn…

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