Maurice Druon. The iron king (№ 187374)

Through the whole history of mankind is ever reviving the tribe such fanatics of the common good and written law. Their logic borders on inhumanity, callousness, as against others, and against themselves; these servants of the gods of abstract and absolute rules take on the role of executioners, for I would be the last executioners. But this is only self-deception, because after their death, the world ceases to obey.