“ The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins. ”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762). copy citation
Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Source | The Social Contract |
Topic | death crime penalty |
Date | 1762 |
Language | English |
Reference | Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Law, Book II |
Note | Translated by George Douglas Howard Cole |
Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract/Book_II |