Marquis de Condorcet Quotes

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

Marquis de Condorcet

• Death
• Existence
• Injustice
• Exposed
• Demonstration

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• The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Death
  • Existence
  • Injustice