The more they spoke of right, the greater injustice was done.

From The History of the English People 1000-1154 by Henry of Huntington.  Page 31.  The record of bad governance by men corrupted by greed for power or money is not, obviously, a present day matter.  It has deep roots in human nature.  

In King William’s twenty-first year [1087], when the Normans had fulfilled the just will of the Lord upon the English people, and there was scarcely a noble of English descent in England, but all had been reduced to servitude and lamentation, and it was even disgrace­ful to be called English, William, the agent of this vengeance, ended his life. For God had chosen the Normans to wipe out the English nation, because He had seen that they surpassed all other people in their unparalleled savagery. Indeed, their character is such that when they have brought their enemies so low that they can cast them down no further, they bring themselves down, and reduce their own lands to poverty and waste. Always the Norman lords, when they have crushed their enemies, since they cannot avoid acting brutally, crush their own men also in wars. This is increasingly apparent in the best lands that God has made subject to them, that is, in Normandy and England, Apulia, Calabria, Sicily, and Antioch.

Thus in England they increased in those times unjust tolls and very evil customs. All the leaders had been so blinded by desire for gold and silver that it might truly have been said of them, ‘Whence it may be had, no one enquires, but have it they must.’ The more they spoke of right, the greater injustice was done. Those who were called justices were the source of all injustice. Sheriffs and officials whose responsibility was justice and judge­ment were more frightful than thieves and robbers, and crueller than the most cruel. The king himself, when he had leased out his lands as dearly as he could, would ignore his agreement and would give them to another who offered more, and then to another, always intent on getting more. Nor did he care how great an injury was done to the poor by petty officials. And so in this year God sent plagues of sickness and famine to England, and those who escaped the fevers died of hunger. He also sent tempests and storms, by which He killed many men, and did not spare animals or beasts.

Echoes of today when those who speak of social justice are the most likely to commit injustice.