"That the law was unchangeably written and equal for all, the informant had never believed, nor could he: between the rich and the poor, between the wise and the ignorant, there were the men of the law; and these men could extend the arm of arbitrariness on one side only, the other side they had to protect and defend [...]. The informant would have been lost to know he was faced with a man, a carabiniere and moreover an officer, who regarded the authority with which he was invested as a surgeon considers a scalpel: a tool to be used with caution, precision, and certainty; who deemed the law to arise from the idea of justice and considered every act that flowed from the law as connected to justice" (L. Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta)