Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. (Albert Camus)

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus

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