Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Context: Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“All actual life is encounter.”
Source: Christianizing the Social Order (1912), p. 108
Session 815, Page 76
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)
“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
Variant: It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 185
