"The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them."

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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

African Spir

#Demand Quotes #Crime Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?”
“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”
“It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.”
“When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.”
“A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.”
“It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.”
“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.153, Macmillan
“Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.”

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