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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.
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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
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Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers ... What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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Any citizen, with the help of the organ banks, can live as long as it takes his central nervous system to wear out. This can be a very long time if his circulatory system is kept functioning. ... But the citizen, cannot take more out of the organ banks than goes into them. He must do his utmost to see that they are supplied. ... The only feasible method of supplying the organ banks is through execution of criminals. ... A criminal's pirated body can save a dozen lives. There is now no valid argument against capital punishment for any given crime; for all such argument seeks to prove that killing a man does society no good. Hence the citizen, who wants to live as long and as healthily as possible, will vote any crime into a capital crime if the organ banks are short of material. ... Cite Earth's capital punishment for false advertising, income tax evasion, air pollution, having children without a license. The wonder was that it had taken so long to pass these laws.
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Someone or something was in this room, something or someone with the power to make people forget. ... He was reaching for the stunner on his desk when something caught his eye. It was the dossier for Matthew Keller, senior. A crude drawing defaced its yellow cover. Two open arcs, joined, in black ink. Three small closed loops beneath. The bleeding heart. It certainly hadn't been there before. Jesus Pietro opened the folder. He could smell his own fear, and feel it, in the cool perspiration that soaked his shirt. As if he'd been afraid for hours.
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Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=26222&author=Oscar Wilde"e=++One+is+absolutely+sickened%2C+not+by+the+crimes+that+the+wicked+have+committed%2C+but+by+the+punishments+that+the+good+have+inflicted%3B+and+a+community+is+infinitely+more+brutalized+by+the+habitual+employment+of+punishment+than+it+is+by+the+occasional+occurrence+of+crime.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F67%2FOscar+Wilde_64x64.png){kind=link}
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=26221&author=Simone Weil"e=++Whenever+a+human+being%2C+through+the+commission+of+a+crime%2C+has+become+exiled+from+good%2C+he+needs+to+be+reintegrated+with+it+through+suffering.+The+suffering+should+be+inflicted+with+the+aim+of+bringing+the+soul+to+recognize+freely+some+day+that+its+infliction+was+just.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F218%2FSimone_Weil_64x64.png){kind=link}
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=101755&author=Larry Niven"e=That%27s+the+thing+about+people+who+think+they+hate+computers+...+What+they+really+hate+are+lousy+programmers.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2846%2FLarry_Niven_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=101766&author=Larry Niven"e=Any+citizen%2C+with+the+help+of+the+organ+banks%2C+can+live+as+long+as+it+takes+his+central+nervous+system+to+wear+out.+This+can+be+a+very+long+time+if+his+circulatory+system+is+kept+functioning.+...+But+the+citizen%2C+cannot+take+more+out+of+the+organ+banks+than+goes+into+them.+He+must+do+his+utmost+to+see+that+they+are+supplied.+...+The+only+feasible+method+of+supplying+the+organ+banks+is+through+execution+of+criminals.+...+A+criminal%27s+pirated+body+can+save+a+dozen+lives.+There+is+now+no+valid+argument+against+capital+punishment+for+any+given+crime%3B+for+all+such+argument+seeks+to+prove+that+killing+a+man+does+society+no+good.%0AHence+the+citizen%2C+who+wants+to+live+as+long+and+as+healthily+as+possible%2C+will+vote+any+crime+into+a+capital+crime+if+the+organ+banks+are+short+of+material.+...+Cite+Earth%27s+capital+punishment+for+false+advertising%2C+income+tax+evasion%2C+air+pollution%2C+having+children+without+a+license.%0AThe+wonder+was+that+it+had+taken+so+long+to+pass+these+laws.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2846%2FLarry_Niven_64x64.png){kind=link}
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