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Forgiveness and atonement are figments, and punishment only pretends to cancel one crime by another
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- George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950)
Forgiveness, absolution, atonement, are figments: punishment is only a pretence of cancelling one crime by another; and you can no more have forgiveness without vindictiveness than you can have a cure without a disease.
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↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org
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