#scaffold

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. The scaffold is an image. It is not merely a framework, a machine, a lifeless mechanism of wood, iron, and rope. It is as though it were a being having its own dark purpose, as though the framework saw, the machine listened, and the mechanism understood; as though that arrangement of wood and iron and rope expressed a will. In the hideous picture which its presence evokes it seems to be most terribly a part of what it does. It is the executioner's accomplice; it consumes, devouring flesh and drinking blood. It is a kind of monster created by the judge and the craftsman; a spectre seeming to live an awful life born of the death it deals. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#executive #hell #legislature #men #office

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. ↗

— George Lamming

#future #gone #hardly #only #our

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #scaffold #which

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#educating #family #historically #life #played

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#makes #scaffold #shame

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#scaffold #throne #truth #wrong

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#building #face #liberal #mask #scaffolding