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Lord Byron : 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. # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Lope de Vega : " And what shall I say of the poets? Oh, this poor century of ours! In the coming year many of them will make their start, but not one of them is as bad as Cervantes, or idiotic enough to praise Don Quixote. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Charles Evans Hughes : " It is not surprising that many should be captivated by the proposal, with its delusive simplicity and adequacey, for the outlawry of war. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The suggestion, however futile in itself, has at least the merit of bringing us to the core of the problem. Even among its sponsors appear at once the qualifications which reflect the old distinction, so elaborately argued by Grotius, between just and unjust wars. "The grounds of war," said he, " are as numerous as those of judicial actions. For where the power of law ceases, there war begins." He found the justifiable causes generally assigned for war to be three — defense, indemnity, and punishment. War is self-help, and the right to make war has been recognized as the corollary of independence, the permitted means by which injured nations protect their territory and maintain their rights. International law leaves aggrieved states who cannot obtain redress for their wrongs by peaceful means to exact it by force. If war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw self-defense, a right still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support the war. There is a further difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver for independent States. There is no legislature to impose its will by majority vote, no executive to give effect even to accepted rules. The outlawry of war necessarily implies a self-imposed restraint, and free peoples, jealous of their national safety, of their freedom of opportunity, of the rights and privileges they deem essential to their well-being, will not forego the only sanction at their command in extreme exigencies. The restraints they may be willing to place upon themselves will always be subject to such conditions as will leave them able to afford self-protection by force, and in this freedom there is abundant room for strife sought to be justified by deep-seated convictions of national interests, by long-standing grievances by the apprehension of aggression to be forestalled. The outlawry of war, by appropriate rule of law making war a crime, requires the common accord needed to establish and maintain a rule of international law, the common consent to abandon war; and the suggested remedy thus implies a state of mind in which no cure is needed. As the restraint is self-imposed it will prove to be of avail only while there is a will to peace. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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George W Bush : " In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people. Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people. War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I was just following orders." " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Thucydides : " Many before now have tried to chastise a wrongdoer, and failing to punish their enemy have not even saved themselves; while many who have trusted in force to gain an advantage, instead of gaining anything more, have been doomed to lose what they had. Vengeance is not necessarily successful because wrong has been done, or strength sure because it is confident; but the incalculable element in the future exercises the widest influence, and is the most treacherous, and yet in fact the most useful of all things, as it frightens us all equally, and thus makes us consider before attacking each other. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Woody Allen : " Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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John Ruskin : " Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Henrik Ibsen : " Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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John Greenleaf Whittier : " God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Oscar Wilde : " One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Claude Lévi-Strauss : " Logically, the "infantilization" of the culprit implied by the notion of punishment demands that he should have a corresponding right to a reward, in the absence of which the initial procedure will prove ineffective and may even lead to results contrary to those that were hoped for. 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; and we believe we have made great spiritual progress because, instead of eating a few of our fellow-men, we subject them to physical and moral mutilation. " # Punishment # Crime and Criminals # Failure

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Lord Byron: " As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?" # Poetry and Poets # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

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Lord Byron: " Friendship is Love without his wings!" # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

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Lord Byron: " There is no instinct like that of the heart." # Intuition

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Lord Byron: " Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." # Love # Danger # Life and Living

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Lord Byron: " They never fail who die in a great cause." # Sacrifice # Failure # Death and Dying

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Lord Byron: " The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain." # Pain # Arts and Artists # Life and Living

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Lord Byron: " 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it." # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Names

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Lord Byron: " The power of thought, the magic of the mind." # Thoughts and Thinking # Power # Mind

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Lord Byron: " All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage." # Marriage # Death and Dying # Comedy and Comedians

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Lord Byron: " All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin." # Giving # Freedom # Power

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