The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sad...e. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than... Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 de...grades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that soci...ety is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »