However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.

Before we can try to remould society intelligently, we must understand its functioning; we must realise that, even when we believe that we understand it, we ma…

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The issue which concern all of us as citizens of this country, irrespective of our political beliefs and ethnicity, is this: if we are to forbear all legal pro…

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.