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...severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority, ought to be grave, and not taunting.
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If an equal punishment be ordained for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, there is nothing to deter men from committing the greater as often as it is attended with greater advantage.
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Can there be a more cruel contrast than that between the indolence of a judge and the painful anxiety of the accused; the comforts and pleasures of an insensible magistrate, and the filth and misery of the prisoner? In general, as I have before observed, The degree of the punishment, and the consequences of a crime, ought to be so contrived as to have the greatest possible effect on others, with the least possible pain to the delinquent. If there be any society in which this is not a fundamental principle, it is an unlawful society; for mankind, by their union, originally intended to subject themselves to the least evils possible.
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...a rigorous policy, applied to enthralled, not to restrain from crimes, has an actual tendency to corrupt the manners, and to extinguish the spirit of nations.
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...if... severities be applied to terminate the agitations of a free people...they tend merely to silence the voice of mankind... and will chain up the active virtues more than the restless disorders of men.
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If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski's statement that flatly defines man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, "Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how."
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I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in every home, in every school, in every asylum, reformatory, and prison. Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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I've never liked reciting poetry,
But what else is there to do inside a prison cell?
So I'll recite some verse to pass the time,
Recite and wait till freedom returns.
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Of the passions that stir the heart of man, there is one which makes the sexes necessary to each other, and is extremely ardent and impetuous; a terrible passion that braves danger, surmounts all obstacles, and in its transports seems calculated to bring destruction on the human race which it is really destined to preserve. What must become of men who are left to this brutal and boundless rage, without modesty, without shame, and daily upholding their loves at the price of their blood?
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Severity -- Added.
April 04, 2020 : Severity -- Updated.
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