Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.