If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by...

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Abdul Baha in Paris Talks
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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