Tag Name "Strangulation" (3)

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control it is systematic strangulation.