It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
- Michel Foucault
The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live of his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it's hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent. Hence the novice or still unsuccessful writer, who has enough trouble believing in himself, has the added burden of shame. It's hard to be a good writer and a guilty person; a lack of self-respect creeps into one's prose.
- John Gardner
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
- Dolores Ibarruri
- Thomas Jefferson
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
- Michel Foucault
The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live of his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it's hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent. Hence the novice or still unsuccessful writer, who has enough trouble believing in himself, has the added burden of shame. It's hard to be a good writer and a guilty person; a lack of self-respect creeps into one's prose.
- John Gardner
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
- Dolores Ibarruri
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