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Simone Weil Quotes: There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
         

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.


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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
         



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