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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom ...more

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But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? ...more

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If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

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We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fell...more

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In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significan...more

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On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or ...more

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.