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Quotes from Reflections on the Guillotine — Albert Camus

1913–1960 France

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A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

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