We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.