The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. - African Spir

Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make an artificial thing, devoid of lasting value.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms of politeness are necessary as a subsitute for benevolence.

Injustice having always been predominant on earth, there are some who imagine that this existing social order will continue forever. That this order was able to last until now, has mainly been due to the conviction of people that it was of divine institution.