Resist not evil

In this heroic age, given to war and conquest and violence, the precepts of peace and good will seem to have been almost submerged. The pulpit, the press, and the school unite i...

How is the authority of the state maintained? In whatever guise, or however far removed from the rudest savage tribe to the most modern democratic state, this autocratic power r...

But the great armies and navies are not really kept to-day for foreign conquest. Now and then, in obedience to the commercial spirit that rules the world, these vessels of destr...

After the evolution of society through brute force and the first stages of militarism, comes civil government. In its forms and methods civil government differs from military go...

Those who believe in the beneficence of force have never yet agreed upon the crimes that should be forbidden, the method and extent of punishment, the purpose of punishment, nor...

The last refuge of the apologist is that punishment is inflicted to prevent crime. No one can speak from experience as to whether punishment prevents what is called crime or not...

If the punishment of so-called crimes tended in any way to prevent violent acts, this tendency would be manifest in some conclusive way. Whether brotherhood love and non-resista...

Reason and judgment as well as an almost endless array of facts has proven that crime is not without its cause. In showing its cause, its cure has been made plain. If the minds...

Natural laws rule the world. It is a mistake to believe that the conduct of man is outside of natural law. The laws of being that move all the sentient world rule him. His first...

But even if some men deserve punishment, who is to judge? The old injunction still comes back and ever will return when man arraigns his fellow, “Let him who is without sin cast...

But admitting the right to punish, where is there a man with the wisdom to inflict punishment? By what magical scales can he weigh the guilt of a human being, and by what standa...

If there is any justice in human punishment it must be based upon the theory of intrinsic evil in the victim. Punishment cannot be justified because of the violation of human la...

Many of the crimes fixed by law are purely arbitrary. To commit them or to refrain does not necessarily imply innocence or guilt. Of such a character, for instance, are revenue...

The rulers make penal codes for the regulation and control of the earth and all the property thereon—the earth which was made long ages before they were evolved, and will still...

The state furnishes no machinery for arriving at justice. Even if it were possible under any circumstances to judge, and even though men were really criminals, the state has no...

Sentimental and humane thoughts and purposes are often, perhaps generally, based on real life, and have a natural reason for their being. To “turn the other cheek” or to “resist...