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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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absolute innocence and absolute guilt

To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent t…

—p.206 Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays Reflections on the Guillotine (173) by Albert Camus
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capital punishment

[...] Many laws consider a premeditated crime more serious than a crime of pure violence. But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? [...]

—p.199 Reflections on the Guillotine (173) by Albert Camus
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socialism of the gallows

In conclusion, I believe [...] that the indispensable conditions for intellectual creation and historical justice are liberty and the free confronting of differences. Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no soci…

—p.171 Socialism of the Gallows (165) by Albert Camus
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the evils that totalitarianism claims to remedy

In order to strike a construtive note, however, I shall propose as one of the preliminaries to any future gathering the unqualified acceptance of the following principle: none of the evils that totalitarianism (defined by the single party and the suppression of all opposition) claims to remedy is w…

—p.171 Socialism of the Gallows (165) by Albert Camus
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a revolutionary press

[...] A press or a book is not true because it is revolutionary. It has a chance of being revolutionary only if it tries to tell the truth. [...]

—p.168 Socialism of the Gallows (165) by Albert Camus