The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
Augusto Roa BastosAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: paraguayan
- Born: June 13, 1917
- Died: April 26, 2005
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