Theft, incest, infanticide, parricide, have all had a place 
 among virtuous actions. Can anything be more ridiculous than 
 that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives 
 on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a 
 quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

 Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He
 who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which 
 is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite 
 self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

 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.

-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensees (1660)