Blaise Pascal Quotes

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.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

The strongest is never strong enough to always be the master unless he transforms strength into right…

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

Force cannot change right.

Might and right govern everything in this world; might till right is ready.