Notable/Famous Quotes from The House of the Dead
“It was the house of living death.”
“Money is a tangible resonant liberty, inestimable for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.”
“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.”
“The hatred of all the prisoners for all who were of gentle birth was so great that every one of them was evidently pleased to see that we were in danger.”
“‘Forgive those that hate you!’ Ah! how divinely He speaks!”
“Already I felt to what an intolerable degree man is a creature of habit.”
“Tyranny is a habit capable of being developed, and at last becomes a disease. I declare that the best man in the world can become hardened and brutified to such a point, that nothing will distinguish him from a wild beast.”
“Let him die, but let him die in freedom.”
“Sure enough, he’s free; he feels it. It’s freedom!”
“What are you to me, fellow? A worm, less than a crawling worm; you’re a convict, while I, by God’s grace, am a Major!”
“Liberty! New life! Resurrection from the dead!”