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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check t

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace

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Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. – Lady Gregory

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