To assert, in any case, that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this today.[Affirmer en tout cas qu’un homme doit être absolument retranché de la société parce qu’il est absolument mauvais revient à dire que celle-ci est absolument bonne, ce que personne de sensé ne croira aujourd’hui. ]

Source:Resistance, rebellion, and death (ed. 1961), Reflections on the Guillotine, Page 226
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