Listen, then, says the angry Sophist (Thrasymachus), “I proclaim that might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger. The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as “justice,” and punish as “unjust” anyone who transgresses them.
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The rulers make laws for their own interests.
The conception of duty has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their masters rather than for their own.
All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
