A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
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