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— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
— Marquis de Sade
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