![As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.] - Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer](https://i0.wp.com/quotesimages.org/images/newquotes05/as-history-has-repeatedly-suggested-nothing-is-more-effective-for-demolishing-traditional-legal-prot-kw76i.jpg "As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.] - Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer")
As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.] – Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer