Shall we commit such a folly, then?
Remember Jesus had got the legal penalty remitted before he said 'Go and sin no more.' Let alone that in a society of equals you will not find any one to play the part of torturer or jailer, though many to act as nurse or doctor." "So," said I, "you consider crime a mere spasmodic disease, which requires no body of criminal law to deal with it ?" "Pretty much so," said he; "and since, as I have told you, we are a healthy people generally, so we are not likely to be much troubled with _this_ disease." "Well, you have no civil law, and no criminal law.

But have you no laws of the market, so to say--no regulation for the exchange of wares?
for you must exchange, even if you have no property." Said he: "We have no obvious individual exchange, as you saw this morning when you went a-shopping; but of course there are regulations of the markets, varying according to the circumstances and guided by general custom.

But as these are matters of general assent, which nobody dreams of objecting to, so also we have made no provision for enforcing them: therefore I don't call them laws.

In law, whether it be criminal or civil, execution always follows judgment, and someone must suffer.

When you see the judge on his bench, you see through him, as clearly as if he were made of glass, the policeman to emprison, and the soldier to slay some actual living person.