Benjamin Chambers

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“The killing of a criminal can be moral—but never its legitimation.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)