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Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of read more
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own
wrong-doing.
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done read more
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done,
so shall it be done to him;
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
