Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Escaping, Way, Prison

• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  The House of the Dead (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett) See Pearl S. Buck 2; Ramsey Clark 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Equality, Spy, Slavery

• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

• Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Numbers, Bird

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