Letters to the Daily Chronicle: Quotes

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• "Ordinary cruelty is simply stupidity."

  The Case of Warder Martin

• "Authority is as destructive to those who exercise it as it is to those on whom it is exercised."

  The Case of Warder Martin

• "The doctor is fighting for a theory. The man is fighting for his life."

  The Case of Warder Martin

• "One of the tragedies of prison life is that it turns a man's heart to stone."

  Prison Reform

• "To be exhibited, like an ape in a cage, to people who are fond of one, and of whom one is fond, is a needless and horrible degradation."

  Prison Reform