No man’s love of justice is strong enough to survive the right to inflict punishment in the name of the creed he professes; and the simplest way to retain his sense of justice is to take away the interest which persuades him of the duty to punish.
This statement suggests that the ability to punish can corrupt one's sense of justice, advocating for the removal of such interests.
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Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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