Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannica…

Blaise Pascal
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated, p.56, Cambridge University Press
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