Benjamin Porter’s Reviews > The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 > Status Update

In keeping silent about evil...we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.'

This quote from chapter 4 has stuck with me as being particularly applicable to modern-day dangerous government overreach."