"Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present."

-- Auberon Waugh

#Long Quotes #Evil Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.”

Source : National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.
“My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.”
“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”
“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”
“If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.”
“Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.”

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