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Prison Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
- If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
- 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…
- A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
- The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- 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…
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