“Vous tenez à l’exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour…”

“Vous tenez à l’exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu’il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu’il ne faut pas tuer. Et comment enseignez-vous qu’il ne faut pas tuer? En tuant.”

— Victor Hugo

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Title: Wikiquote: Victor Hugo
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You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.

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Hugo, Victor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Victor Hugo. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

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