WRITERS ON PRISON SYSTEM
FJODOR DOSTOJEVSKI – ‘Crime & Punishment
‘The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.’
VICTOR HUGO – The last day of a condemned man
“You say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual”
“Als je de deur van een school open doet, sluit je een gevangenis.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE – Thus spoke Zarathustra
“Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law?”
STANLEY MILGRAM – Obedience to authority
‘The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.’
MICHEL FOUCAULT – Discipline and punish: birth of the prison
“I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
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