I've also seen it translated as "The most law, the least justice" and in other ways.
However you say it, the point is that coercive Power-- the Power to inflict coercion and violence on innocents with impunity -- is evil. It can NEVER be used for good, because it attracts and empowers psychopaths and sociopaths, so corruption and evil INEVITABLY grow once the ember of coercion is set alight.
See: America since its inception. "The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" gradually became the Land of Tyranny and the Home of the Cowering Slaves. Let us PLEASE, PLEASE not start the cycle anew after the Great Awakening blossoms.
The Ring of Power MUST BE DESTROYED; civil society must be our goal.
It is interesting to consider that corruption not only refers to pay for play, but also the rotting and unbinding [ loss of consistency] of corpses ...
balnea vina venus corrumpunt corpora nostra sed vitam faciunt balnea vina venus.
“More law, less justice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties (44 BC). https://kwize.com/quote/5434
I've also seen it translated as "The most law, the least justice" and in other ways.
However you say it, the point is that coercive Power-- the Power to inflict coercion and violence on innocents with impunity -- is evil. It can NEVER be used for good, because it attracts and empowers psychopaths and sociopaths, so corruption and evil INEVITABLY grow once the ember of coercion is set alight.
See: America since its inception. "The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" gradually became the Land of Tyranny and the Home of the Cowering Slaves. Let us PLEASE, PLEASE not start the cycle anew after the Great Awakening blossoms.
The Ring of Power MUST BE DESTROYED; civil society must be our goal.
There's too many laws that's so stupid everywhere on the book. Someone needs to do a lot of cleaning.
De Officiis by Cicero:
It is interesting to consider that corruption not only refers to pay for play, but also the rotting and unbinding [ loss of consistency] of corpses ...