Submission to law

The submission to law: oh,  with what qualms of conscience was it that the noble races throughout the world renounced the vendettaand gave the law power over themselves! Law was long a vetitum, a blasphemy, an innovation; it was introduced with force like a force, to which men only submitted with a sense of personal shame. Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture. 

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE