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• The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Squad, Justice

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• It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Police, Doctrine

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

  Gene Simmons

  Kids, People, Ems

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• State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.

  James Connolly

  Army, Land, Judging

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Prison Guards

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

  Tim Wu

  Mind, Cash, Nooses

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, People, Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.134, Penguin

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• We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Thinking, Secret

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4889, Delphi Classics

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• What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Self, Fellow Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Hanmer, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1744). “The Works of Shakespear: Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary”, p.207

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Dirty, Government, Political

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Suffering, Criminals

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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