20 février 2011
inpbpm :The Corruption of Principles and the Decline of the State
The corruption of each government begins almost always with the corruption of its principles…Once
the principles of a government have been corrupted, even the best laws
become bad and will turn against the State; whereas when the principles
remain healthy, bad laws may have the effect of good ones; the force of
principle carries everything with it…
Few laws are not good when the State has not
lost its principles; and, as Epicurus relates in speaking of wealth: “It
is not the liquor which has become corrupted, but the... [Lire la suite]