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| 6a527f8 | But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. | the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man death-penalty punishment vengeance victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 5973969 | The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple. | illness love gallows judges the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man prisons cross hospitals crime victor-hugo | Victor Hugo |