Without having anything against justice, one may be allowed to point out that the
word conceals the profound truth of its contrary, which is precisely freedom. Under the mask of justice, it is true that general
freedom takes on the lackluster and neutral appearance of existence
subjected to the necessities: if anything, it is a narrowing of limits to what is most just; it is not a dangerous breaking-loose, a
meaning that the word has lost. It is a guarantee against the risk
of servitude, not a will to assume those risks without which there
is no freedom.
Bataille, The Accursed Share Vol. 1 (38)
Bataille, The Accursed Share Vol. 1 (38)
