James Anthony Froude Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Prison, Crime, Offense

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.223

• Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.

  James Anthony Froude

  Country, Men, Ideas

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.137

• I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

  James Anthony Froude

  House, Stronger, Burning

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.17

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