The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
Fyodor Dostoyevskyamazon.com
The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
Money is a tangible resonant liberty, inestimable for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
It once came into my head that if it were desired to reduce a man to nothing—to punish him atrociously, to crush him in such a manner that the most hardened murderer would tremble before such a punishment, and take fright beforehand—it would be necessary to give to his work a character of complete uselessness, even to absurdity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop with these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden e
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