Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion …

Marquis de Sade
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted. ✨ Sade (marquis de) (1965). Selected letters
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