Chimp Thinks

I'm basically just reproducing 'The Road to Serfdom' in a million different posts, but fook me, if it isn't spot on:

"The Rule of Law, the absence of legal privileges of particular people designated by authority, is what safeguards that equality before the law which is the opposite of arbitrary government. It is significant that socialists... ...have always protested against ‘merely’ formal justice, that they have objected to law which had no views on how well off particular people ought to be, that they have demanded a ‘socialization of the law’ and attacked the independence of judges."