• The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

    Alfred North Whitehead: The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.290, Simon and Schuster